Saturday, February 4, 2012

Storage Servers

Backup Storage Server Solutions For Any Size Business

Thinkmate High Capacity storage servers are fully customizable multi-terabyte solutions suited for a wide range of applications. These high-availability, redundant systems may be configured as a multi-purpose server with your choice of Microsoft Windows or Linux operating system, or with Microsoft Storage Server 2008 for a maintenance-free storage NAS solution. These servers are available with up to 62 removable drive bays per box and allow for amazing amounts of raw storage. Compare all Storage Servers using our Storage Server Grid.

Intel Xeon Storage Servers

Intel® server processors offer robust performance for the data center and deliver enhanced, energy-efficient performance for business applications.

AMD Opteron Storage Servers

The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform, offering the industry's only twelve-core x86 processor. Built to excel when the workload gets tough.

Multi-lane Backplane
Storage Servers

Greatly reduce cable clutter with multi-lane cabling which carry multiple lanes of high speed traffic through just one cable per four hard drives.

SATA or SAS 2.0 6Gb/s Drives
3ware 9750 Controllers
3ware 3DM2 Management
2U to 8U Form Factors
Up to 186 TB Max Size
Up to 28.8 TB per U
2.5" or 3.5" Drive Options
12 to 62 Hard Drives
Highest Capacity without using expanders

SAS Expander
Storage Servers

SAS Expander-based systems can be used as stand-alone near-line storage servers or as a SAS Expander Host nodes for adding on JBOD units.

SAS 2.0 6Gb/s Drives Only
3ware 9750 Controllers
3ware 3DM2 Management
2U to 4U Form Factors
Up to 72 TB Max Size
Up to 18 TB per U
2.5" or 3.5" Drive Options
16 to 72 Hard Drives
Multi-path I/O
2x Expanders Support
Cascade JBOD units

JBOD Expansion
Storage Subsystems

Scalable, high-performance, and affordable SATA or SAS 2.0 (6.0 Gbps) JBOD enclosures for RAID or JBOD Expansion. Requires host server with RAID controller or HBA.

SATA 3Gb/s or SAS 2.0 6Gb/s
Tower or Rackmount
Up to 90 TB Max Size
Up to 22.5 TB per U
2.5" or 3.5" Drive Options
5 to 45 Hard Drives
Connect to a SAS Expander Host Node

Rack Size

2U Storage Servers
3U Storage Servers
4U Storage Servers
5U Storage Servers
8U Storage Servers

Bays

12 Bay Storage Servers
16 Bay Storage Servers
24 Bay Storage Servers
36 Bay Storage Servers
48 Bay Storage Servers
50 Bay Storage Servers
62 Bay Storage Servers
72 Bay Storage Servers

Intel Platforms

Intel Xeon 3600
Intel Xeon 5600
Intel Xeon 7000
All Intel Storage

AMD Platforms

AMD Opteron 6100
All AMD Storage

Sockets

Single Socket Storage Servers
Dual Socket Storage Servers
Quad Socket Storage Servers

SATA 6Gb/s Storage Servers

Serial ATA 6.0Gbps Hard Disks and Solid State Drives

SAS 2.0 Storage Servers

Serial Attached SCSI 2.0 6Gbps Hard Disks and Solid State Drives

The Importance of RAID

Data is the most valuable asset of any business today. Lost data means lost business. Even if you backup regularly, you need a fail-safe way to ensure that your data is protected and can be accessed without interruption in the event of an online disk failure. Adding RAID to your storage configurations is one of the most cost-effective ways to maintain both data protection and access. While a number of companies offer RAID, not all RAID implementations are created equal.

With 21 years of storage development experience, only Thinkmate offers the most robust RAID data protection available today. Our products are based on a hardened RAID code proven over years of use in demanding environments.

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