S2A

The Silicon Storage Architecture (S2A) appliance and storage system delivers sustained bandwidth of up to 6 GB/s per appliance and enables scaling beyond 250 GB/s in total throughput between host computers and disk drives. The system supports 8 Gbps Fibre Channel, as well as 20 Gbps Infiniband DDR host connections, and leverages SAS protocol to communicate to the drives it manages. With RAID 6 enabled, users can achieve and maintain full system bandwidth in both reads and writes. The system also includes SATAssure Plus, featuring a sleep mode that allows it to ‘spin down’ drives based on user-definable policies when not actively accessed.