Aberdeen Increases Stirling and AberNAS Storage by 33%

Since 1991, Aberdeen
Inc.
has been designing and manufacturing high-capacity storage solutions
for companies in a variety of industries.

Through the years, the company has
strived to maximize the efficiency of its products in order to
provide the most storage possible to its customers.The company made just such a
change with its Stirling
and
AberNAS
product
lines by increasing the potential storage capacity by 33%.

These solutions have been able to
provide large amounts of storage, whether it was up to 198TB in a
single server or 1PB in an array. However, the company has
now included support for Hitachi’s Nearline 24/7 4TB SATA HDD, which
improves on efficiency and provides more raw storage capacity than
ever before. In fact, companies can now get 16TB of
storage in a 1U model or up to 264TB in an 8U rackmount
configuration.

This increase in capacity per HDD
makes it possible to pack more available storage into each system
without the need to invest in servers. In addition to cutting down on
equipment expenditures, the capacity can also help free up some much
needed space in a data center or even aid in the consolidation
process. These configurations are
customizable, so companies can get the amount of storage needed.

Stirling Scalable Storage
Servers:

In addition to the newly-added
support for 4TB HDDs Stirling Scalable Nearline Storage
Servers are also packed with other features for data
centers. Each Stirling server utilizes Intel’s 5520 Chipset, Intel
Xeon Processor 5600 series, and Intel microarchitecture with Turbo
Boost Technology. Stirling servers also feature up to 192GB of DDR3
memory, a maximum bandwidth of 32GBps, and more. All Stirling
servers are available in RAID-6, -0, -1, -5, and -10 configurations with
more than 1200MBps transfers. By combining these technologies
into one solution, data centers can expect fast processing
speeds and reliable performance.

The company also has four Stirling
configurations with Intel Xeon Processor 5600 onboard. The first is
the 3U X339, which supports up to 16 HDD and up to 64TB of capacity.
The 5U X539 supports up to 24 HDD and as much as 96TB of storage. The
two 8U models, the X889 and the X899, have space for 48 and 64 HDD
and up to 192TB and 256TB of storage, respectively. Because these
systems are customizable and can be combined to create an array,
Aberdeen also added the option of expandable SAS2 storage up to 1PB
and beyond.

AberNAS Solutions:

For those in need of scalable,
high-capacity NAS solutions, Aberdeen offers its AberNAS line of
products designed to work with the specific OS chosen. For instance,
the AberNAS LX-Series works with 64-bit Linux environments and the
AberNAS X8-Series is designed for the Windows Storage Server 2008 OS.
Aberdeen also has a 32-bit Windows Storage Server 2003 R2 entry-level
AberNAS model and other Linux-based solutions.

For companies using Linux-based OS
in need of massive virtualized storage arrays, the AberNAS LX-Series
has many features. It now supports up to 8EB of
storage and, with this level of available storage, Aberdeen
has also included a easier GUI for 64-bit Linux environments so it’s
easier to manage arrays.

AberNAS solutions are flexible in
that companies can have as much as 264TB of storage in a server to as
little as 2TB in a 1U configuration. They feature support for RAID-0,
-1, -5, -6, -10, and JBOD and SATA 3Gbps or 6Gbps disk drives. In
addition, these storage solutions are protected with snapshot data
recovery, hardware redundancy, and redundant hot-swappable power
supplies.

Customizable and Scalable
Solutions:

Aberdeen’s tech experts are
available to help administrators configure the Stirling and AberNAS
storage solutions to their specifications. The products are
designed for companies of all sizes, from a small business to the
largest enterprise. Plus, the solutions can grow
alongside a company, leaving enough space to scale maximum storage
capacity.