DiscPac 8000 by EScon

The DiscPac 8000 storage system from UK-based EScon Ltd. is a high feature and performance mid capacity storage product for those companies on a small/medium sized IT budget. With this in mind it is distributed as an all inclusive out of the box, turnkey solution. As businesses continue to grow, administrators have the flexibility to add premium features to support data utilisation and protection requirements such as storage partitioning, volume snapshot and volume copy.

A product to fill this market gap has been eagerly awaited by many of those EScon customers running storage area networks (SANs), and streaming applications such as surveillance or HD video. It is also anticipated that the broadcasting industry and others with large database archive requirements will be particularly impressed with the speed, price and security offered by the DiscPac 8000.

EScon Ltd has consistently provided reliable leading edge storage solutions, popular across a range of markets and applications.  The DiscPac 8000 is no disappointment. Confidence in the success of the product is high with next generation serial attached technology incorporating a new LSI controller, a storage capacity of 12 Terabytes, and it is very fast (900MB/s sustained transfer rate from media).  Being a stackable system, it can grow with the user’s needs to a sizable 48 Terabytes.

It is already attracting a lot of interest from such diverse markets as the University of Cambridge, a European national electricity board and a national museum. And with it being 30% cheaper than the nearest comparable offerings from the larger brands it is hardly surprising.
Tony Howard, Director of EScon Ltd said: "Having recognised the opportunity within the market we have worked hard to design a very fast and reliable unit incorporating many top of the range features at a price affordable for the customer. We are proud to set high expectations of ourselves and our products."

Product Features

• Fibre, SAS or iSCSi host options & Single or Dual Controller
• Unified SAS/SATA back plane
• Up to 12 Terabyte (SATA) per chassis
• Up to 4.8 Terabyte (SAS) per chassis
• Support for RAID level 0,1,3,5,6, and 1+0
• Solution of choice for 2-node cluster topologies providing high-availability and redundancy
• Simple to implement and manage with intuitive easy-to-use interface
• ‘Start small, grow big’ scalability with 3Gb/s JBOD SAS expansion supporting up to a total of 48 drives