Infortrend Supports 512TB Per Single Logical Drive

Infortrend Technology, Inc. announced support for single logical drives (LD) up to 512TB in size.

EonStor DS 3012

The increased single LD capacity allows users to employ higher capacity disks and increase total capacity utilization, especially in storage-hungry applications such as media editing, backup, and archiving. Larger single LD capacity means easier storage configuration and greater flexibility.

Over the last two years, disk capacity has grown exponentially. Business-class drives in 6TB are popular and 8TB drives are also becoming commonplace. Following this trend, Infortrend expanded single LD capacity to 512TB so that IT managers can deploy RAID systems with fewer LDs and remove the need for capacity-consuming partitioning due to RAID logical drive parity requirements. This development simplifies management and helps users better utilize HDDs for improved ROI and savings.

As an example, an EonStor DS 3012 system (2U 12-bay) populated with 8TB drives offers 96TB raw capacity. With the 512TB allotment the entire array fits within one LD, with no need for the multiple tasks required in multi-LD configuration. Also, just one HDD is used as parity requirement in RAID-5 or two for RAID-6, instead of the several HDDs required in any multi-LD topology.

“Large logical drives are a natural evolution of our effort to make storage easier to use and more future-proof as drive capacity grows and users require bigger capacities”, commented Thomas Kao, senior director, product planning, Infortrend.