Top How-Tos / Advice articles

IT Jobs

Did you know? Techworld now offers an IT Jobs section with hundreds of jobs! Current job listings are now available for Software Developers, Web Developers, Application Engineers, Project Managers, Graduate opportunities and more. Apply for your new IT job today!

Go green with world's first array of 2.5 inch drives

More efficient than 3.5 inch drives claim.

By Mario Apicella, Infoworld
Published: 15:47 GMT, 25 January 08

Infortrend has claimed a storage first by shipping the EonStor B12, the first enterprise-class array based on 2.5-inch drives.

The company said that the B12 could become the measuring stick for all storage arrays in its class, surpassing those that mount 3.5-inch drives in both efficiency and performance/space ratio.

The B12 comes equipped with two SAS (serial attached SCSI) or FC (Fibre Channel) host ports, which should appeal to both SAN and DAS customers. The company claimed that the B12 could pack 12 actuators in just 1U - revolutionary, given that 3.5-inch drive systems would require twice as much space, if not more, to host the same number of drives. Except for a few blade systems, no other storage array packs so much power in so little space. Users will also be able to buy a B12 with four FC ports and dual RAID controllers, each connected to its 12 dual-ported SAS drives. If one controller stops working, data is still available via an alternate path.

To expand beyond the first rack unit, the EonStor can connect four more 1U modules with 12 SAS drives each. If large capacity is the primary objective, the array can be expanded with 2U or 3U modules mounting 3.5-inch SATA drives.

What are your views on this subject? Use the form below to post a comment on this article up to 500 characters.

Characters remaining: 500

Add your commentComments

Derek | Published: 22:05 GMT, 04 February 2008

I am not certain what makes this a "green" technology, other than improved performance and reliability and a small form factor. What about toxics, energy usage, life-cycle considerations, manufacturing, materials sourcing, and social responsibility to workforce, etc.?

s.k.singh | Published: 01:28 GMT, 26 January 2008

instalation of data traveler 2.0 usb software

Related Storage news

HP tool offers continous laptop backup

Set it and forget.

19 November 2009

Intel fixes drive bricking firmware update for flash drives

Company to re-release SSD software

IBM offers Lotus Symphony on Keepod USB devices

Thin USB device uses VMware to provide secure access to the Lotus suite

Sun claims record-breaking storage array

Says Storage 7000 is fastest on the planet

Related Storage reviews

Email this article to a friend or colleague:

PLEASE NOTE: Your name is used only to let the recipient know who sent the story, and in case of transmission error. Both your name and the recipient's name and address will not be used for any other purpose.

Techworld White Papers

Database security: Preventing enterprise data leaks at the source

IDC discusses the growing internal threats to business information, the impact of government regulations on the protection of data, and how enterprises must adopt database security best practices...

Download Whitepaper

Service-oriented security

SOA has become an integral part of enterprise software by providing a framework to efficiently develop software as services that is easily sharable, reusable, and integrated. No where is the need more apparent than in the Identity Management space. Welcome to the age of Service-Oriented Security (SOS).

Download Whitepaper

Data protection prospective vendor checklist

Organisations need a way to map business needs against all these challenges in procuring a technical solution. To help, SANS has developed the following Prospective Vendor Checklist.

Download Whitepaper

Unlock the power of the mainframe

This whitepaper presents the notion of CICS as an integration hub based on a component-based, service-oriented architecture supporting Web services. Highlights will review the challenges and contrasted support for Web services natively in CICS.

Download Whitepaper

Techworld UK - Technology - Business

COLT White Paper

Are all VoIP services the same?

Questions to ask your service provider to ensure you get the VoIP service you need
With careful choice of partner, your business can have all the advantages of VoIP access - reduced costs, flexibility and simplicity - without the drawbacks.
This white paper is your guide to ensure you get right the VoIP service and details the pitfalls which businesses would do well to avoid.

Download white paper
BMC

Ride the express lane in the journey to speed ITIL adoption

Explore the challenges in making the journey to ITIL and the criteria for selecting consulting services
By following ITIL practices, your IT organisation will become more closely integrated with the business. We recommend making the journey to ITIL in a sequence of six incremental steps, the phases of which are driven through execution of a strategic transformational roadmap.

Download white paper

Webcast: IT Financial Management: Cost Optimisation for Efficiency and Agility.
On Demand Webcast
Join this webcast to learn about the techniques and technologies that can help you prove the value of IT to the business by understanding the true cost of today's IT services and those that will be necessary to deliver future success.

Register Today

Site Map

IDG Network

* *