Features Ideal applIcatIons

Guaranteed Qos: real-time streaming

leading performance: read and Write at 6GB/s

leading density: 1,200 drives in Just two racks

tiered storage: Intermix ssd, sas, sata

Go Green: d-MaId power Management technology

eliminate data corruption: satassureTM

Zero degraded Mode: For rebuilds or Failures

rich Media and cloud

Broadcast, post production, Vod, digital Intermediate

serve Multiple sd, Hd, 2K and 4K streams concurrently

Web 2.0 and content archiving

Hpc and life sciences

High speed cluster storage

Genomics research

oil and Gas

digital security & cctV

centralized or distributed surveillance sites

traditional It

High-speed nas storage

rapid Backup/restore

Virtual tape library/de-dup storage

remote office/disaster recovery

satellite Ingest

S2A9900 SAN Storage Systemreal-time performance and capacity optimized Intelligent, self-Healing storage

unstructured, file-based content is rapidly becoming the primary data type of the 21st century. data center managers are challenged by exploding data sets and performance requirements, while headcount and budgets remain fixed. proactively planning for growth requires a storage architecture that will scale in performance and capacity while reducing the total cost of ownership.

the s2a9900 from datadirect networks (ddn) is the eighth generation of silicon storage architecture (s2a), purpose-built to meet the extreme requirements of todays data and content-intensive world. s2a technology provides highly parallel architecture and a hardware accelerated state-machine delivering sustained and predictable performance, innovative and industry leading performance, quality of service, data protection and density that enable you to deploy and mange fewer systems to meet todays changing data patterns and the explosive growth in capacity and performance requirements. significantly lowering both acquisition costs and total cost of ownership. s2a9900 is equally ideal for performance-driven, real-time streaming applications, providing up to 6GB/s of sustained throughput; and to consolidate capacity-centric online archives, efficiently storing up to 3.6 petabytes in just two floor tiles.

datasHeet

environmental attributes - active/active dual controllers (couplet)

environmental attributes - 4u enclosure (60 drives)

lun Mapping and Masking powerluns Intelligent stream detection and/or port Zoning

real-time data Verification read-only luns a/V slow drive avoidance Background data scrubbing directapI directMirror lun caching

s2a9900 capabilities:Read and Write at the Same Speed: the only system to eliminate the standard 50% write performance penalty, so ingest and other write-heavy applications perform faster

Real-Time Quality of Service: always at Full-speed: While write activity, capacity utilization, data integrity checks and drive rebuilds slow down other systems, the s2a9900 always performs at full-speed to ensure sustained performance

RAID 6 Without Compromise: ddn directraIdtM provides the double parity protection of raId 6 without the performance penalties found in every other system

Power Down and Save: is a policy-based feature, ideal for archives, that spins down inactive drives to reduce power and cooling. unlike typical MaId systems, d-MaId spins-up rapidly and doesnt require a fixed portion of the systems drives to be powered down

ensures data integrity by detecting and correcting errors on every read in real-time without any impact to application performance or usable drive capacity

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the fastest disk controller wecould find was from datadirectnetworks. It met our needs interms of price and performance.

- Microsoft studios Xbox live

We chose ddn because of itsperformance, scalability, and dataintegrity capabilities.

- nasa ames research center

the World leader in Hpcoak ridge national laboratory selected 48 s2a9900s to build the worlds fastest and largest posIX file system.ddn systems power 15 of the worlds top 20 Hpc systems in the world.

the World leader in digital Mediathe s2a9900 is the recipient of multiple awards, including Frost & sullivans digital Media storage Innovation of the Year and HpcWires Best product and technology of the Year

ddn technology powers over 600 digital media facilities worldwide.

standard software Features

system Management console Java-Based GuI pager and e-Mail Fault with snMp notification

sleep Mode read-only luns remote administration utility

sequential read and Write up to 6GB/s

protection level directraId (parity), 8+2(raId6)

Max drives 1,200

cache 5GB - raId protected

Host connectivity 8x Fc8, 8x IB (ddr)

client support Windows, linux, solaris, IrIX, aIX, Mac os

dimensions Height - 7.0 (17.8 cm) Width 19 (48.3 cm) depth 31 Including Front Bezel (78.8cm)

average power 800W/3.84a

average cooling 2730 Btu/hr

Voltage range 85-264 Vac

Weight 90lbs (41.0 Kg)

certifications ul, ce, cul, c-tick., Fccs

drive types ssd, sas and sata

dimensions Height - 7.0 (17.8 cm) Width - 17.56 (44.6 cm) depth - 36.2 (92 cm) without bezel: 40.6 (103 cm) w/bezel and cable management arms

average power 1750W

Voltage range 190-264 Vac

operating environment 10 deg c 35 deg c

Weight 240 lbs (109 Kg) with drives

120 lbs (54.5 Kg) without drives

certifications ul, ce, cul, Fcc

optional software Features

product attributes - active/active dual controllers (couplet)

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