RAID explained

RAID Subsystems

The RAID subsystems are highly reliable storage enclosures that offer data protection capability in the event of a drive failure. These systems have one or more integrated controller devices that manage the data on the disk drives. The controller directs access to the data so that if a disk drive fails, other disk drives in the RAID system can be used to recover data that was lost from the affected disk drive. RAID subsystems can be configured to optimise performance, costs and data recovery time.

The design of our storage subsystems allows them to be implemented on a modular basis and offers customers a high degree of flexibility in configuring a suitable storage system. Our modular approach also minimises the number of different product designs and reduces the development time for a new configuration. The storage subsystems can be configured to deliver varying combinations of size, storage capacity, communication protocol, RAID functionality, component redundancy and management software. Another benefit of the modular design of our products is that end-users are able to easily increase their storage capacity by adding components and storage subsystems to their existing infrastructure.

JBOD Subsystems

These JBOD subsystems are high-density storage enclosures that can be configured to specific applications including changes to disk drive form factor and number of drives per enclosure. This includes configurations of 8, 12, 14, 16 disk drives per enclosure. Our subsystems currently integrate high-speed Fibre Channel, low-cost Serial ATA, Parallel ATA and enterprise class SCSI disk drives.