Storage Appliance 1U 4 Disk
Simple Networked Storage
Coraid is proud to introduce the EtherDrive® SR420 Storage appliance, a new way to implement true networked storage. EtherDrive® Storage is Direct Network Attachment (DNA) block storage. DNA moves a disk drive onto a network connection. Servers connect to DNS Storage via ordinary Ethernet connectors. DNS uses the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) protocol. AoE is simpler than the iSCSI protocol and does not require TCP/IP processing or expensive network adapters.
EtherDrive® Storage is directly accessible and shared by Servers on the network. Disks inside the EtherDrive® Storage appliance can be assembled into RAID sets and presented as logical EtherDrive® devices. Servers can mount these block devices and use them just as if they were local disk drives. Storage can be freed and reattached to a new server without having to move disks or cables.
Unlimited Storage
Users can install their own SATA disk drives. The SR420 accepts any standard SATA1 or SATA2 disks. As higher density disks become available new SATA disks can be installed quickly and easily.
There are no limits to how many disks can be attached to a single Server. There are no constraints to how big an EtherDrive® Storage array can be expanded. Since each EtherDrive® Storage appliance has its own GigE connections, the storage array performance increases directly proportional to the number of appliances in the array. Each time a new EtherDrive® Storage appliance is added to the storage system, more processing power is added and therefore throughput and IOPS performance of the storage system is also increased.
Summary
- The 1U EtherDrive® SR420 Storage appliance bridges 4 disks to an Ethernet network as individual disks or as one or more RAID sets
- Internal RAID controller allows disks to be assembled into RAID sets including RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and concatenated/linear combinations
- EtherDrive® Storage provides unlimited block storage, enabling simple Storage Area Networks using Ethernet
- Logical disks can be shared by multiple servers
- Storage access > 60K IOPS, and > 100MB/sec
- Disks can be assembled into RAID sets including RAID 0, 1, 5, 10 and concatenated/linear combinations
- Simple command line interface
- Syslog status messages
- MAC filtering restricts disk access to authorized servers only
- EtherDrive® Storage uses AoE protocol now included as part of every Linux kernel
- AoE drivers are available for Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and other Operating Systems
- Dual Gigabit Ethernet connection
- Up to 750 GB per SATA1 or SATA2 disk
- Up to 3 TB per 1U shelf
Part Number
CED1U4SS
List Price
$US 1,995 (Service Agreement recommended)