Nexsan Greens SANs

June 5, 2008: Nexsan is attempting to clean up the storage market’s environmental credentials, announcing the industry’s first green SAS storage solution with MAID 2.0.

The company has released SASBoy, a high-density, Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage solution, and the only one of its kind to provide MAID 2.0 functionality via Nexsan’s AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) technology.

NexSan says the technology reduces energy consumption without compromising application performance. SASBoy uses high-performance RAID controllers and offers fast I/O response for searching and retrieving small fixed-content files. According to the company is well suited to applications like web and Intranet fixed-content delivery, databases for storing and retrieving PACS (Picture Archiving and Communication Systems) content, document management, and business reports.

The solution houses fourteen 300GB SAS drives, delivering up to 4.2 TB of storage, and offers random access speeds for fixed-content and up to 50,000 random IOPS from cache.

“Whereas most SAS solutions support primary storage applications, the SASBoy is designed to enable high-performance fixed-content applications with energy efficiency,” says Bob Woolery, senior vice president of marketing, Nexsan. “From the perspective of the host O/S, the SASBoy array acts like any SAS RAID while opportunistically looking for ways to save power.”

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