S2A9500

The S2A9500, DataDirect’s 6th generation RAID storage networking system, was designed specifically to provide optimal block level and file system performance for highly scalable, open system computing environments, and surpasses all storage performance records with sustained read and write performance of over 3 Gigabytes/second. Its highly modular architecture offers up to eight plug and play FC-4 and Infiniband host side connections, optimized for use with a broad range of file systems, CPUs and interconnect technologies. The S2A9500 supports over one thousand SATA and Fibre-Channel disk drives through its twenty high speed disk-side ports.

S2A8500

DataDirect’s S2A8500 Silicon Storage Appliance is the world’s highest performance networked storage system and the most cost efficient solution for High Performance Computing and Rich Media applications. Specifically designed for bandwidth intensive computing environments, the S2A8500 breakthrough architecture combines the highest performance and scalability with exceptional reliability and management capabilities.

S2A8000

The S2A8000 is part of the flagship Silicon Storage Appliance family designed to make it easy for the scientific, supercomputing and rich media communities to deploy and scale 2Gb/s Fibre Channel storage area network infrastructures. Including directRAID, a patent protected Parallel access Architecture, Centralized Caching, and Solid-State Disk functionality, the S2A8000 provides the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for any high-performance storage environment. Generic RAID storage devices have been designed for the transactional markets and fall short when installed in high-throughput distributed computing, the S2A8000 has been specifically designed and engineered to serve the stringent throughput, scalability and low latency requirements of HPC, Rich Media and Oil and Gas environments.

S2A3000

The S2A3000 is the Workgroup version of the Enterprise-Class Silicon Storage Appliance S2A8000, designed to make it easy for the scientific, supercomputing and broadcast communities to deploy and scale Fibre Channel storage area network infrastructures. Including directRAID, a patent protected Parallel Access Architecture, Centralized Caching, and Solid-State Disk functionality, the S2A3000 provides the lowest Total Cost of Ownership for any performance driven storage environment.