Nexsan Ramps Up With the 1TB

June 25, 2007: Nexsan have taken the Hitachi One-Terabyte hard drives to heart to push up the capacity of their storage systems by 33 percent, and claim they can now boast the most energy efficient RAID systems available.

Nexsan’s Australian distribution partner AustSTOR, says the new Ultrastar A7K100 one TB enterprise class hard-drive will be incorporated into their SATABeast, SATABoy and SATABlade products, adding the 33 percent increased capacity to existing configurations.

Bruce Macdonald, business development manager at AustStor Data Storage puts the one-terabyte milestone in line with the needs of local business. “Australia and New Zealand are not immune to the rapid growth of data, and Nexsan’s Highly Density Storage Arrays are a good fit for organisations wanting a highly robust and energy efficient storage solution, plus back-for-buck,” he says.

All up, the SATABeast will hit the 42TB mark with the increased capacity, which Nexsan says, makes it the highest of any RAID system available in just 4U of rack space. SATABoy will jump to 14TB in a 3U configuration while SATABlade will hit 8TB in 1U.

Gary Watson, CTO at Nexsan, claims Nexsan is ‘shattering’ the competition through its lead on drive technologies. “With the Hitachi Ultrastar 1TN drives, coupled with out AutoMAID technology, we are shattering the capacity limitations of other storage systems, while keeping power consumption costs low without sacrificing performance or availability.”

Nexsan includes to AutoMAID (massive array of idle disks) to help reduce power consumption and carbon emissions and also support standard high performance RAID as well as disk=based backup, VTL and data archiving implementations.

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