The VS-F48D provides a highly flexible, high density RAID. The VS-F48D is a 4U rack mount high performance Fibre Channel RAID storage solution that can accommodate up to 48 SATA drives for up to 96 TB of storage. Based on a modular, "building block" design, the RAID offers exceptional scalability. It supports various RAID levels. An optional 4U expansion chassis doubles the storage to 192 TB.
It is the perfect partner to our Vortex data recorder family. Some application examples include:
1) The VS-F48D RAID supports the Vortex data recorders with single or dual 4GB/s FC ports.
External Interface
4 G FC, loop and fabric (switched) topologies
Total Capacity per Unit
96 TB
Expansion Chassis
VS-E96D (1 max), SAS connected, dual IO module configurations
Total Expansion Capacity
192 TB, 1 G Cache per controller
Disk Drives Supported
Hitachi SATA-II (7.2K/2TB)
Interface Types
SATA-II (3GB/s), NCQ, dedicated bandwidth to each drive
Max Drives per Enclosure
48 drives/system, automatic bad sector assignment
No. RAID Controllers
2 (dual)
RAID Levels Supported
Up to 96 disk arrays with independent RAID level 0, 1, 5, 6, 10 & 50 support