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ELL POWER SOLUTIONS
1
STORAGE
F
or more than 20 years, SCSI technolo
y has been
deployed to meet mainstream enterprise storage
equirements. With the arrival of Serial Attached SCSI
SAS
—the next
eneration o
SCSI-based disk technolo
y
enterprises can deploy storage systems that are more flex-
l
n
l
l
h
n
v
r
r
s the industry’s first 3.5-inch SAS-based disk enclosure,
he PowerVault MD1000 stora
e expansion enclosure builds
pon the Dell tradition o
o
ering expandable server storage.
y incorporatin
SAS technolo
y, the PowerVault MD1000
s designed to o
er a point-to-point architecture capable o
deliverin
up to 12 Gbps performance. Alon
with the PCI
Express–based Dell PowerEd
e RAID Controller 5/Extended
(PERC 5/E), the PowerVault MD1000 can help enterprises to
meet their
rowin
direct attach stora
e needs
Develo
ment of
I technology
Over t
e
ears,
ara
e
SCSI
as mature
an
ecome
he stora
e interconnect of choice for many mainstream
enterprises deployin
server-centric stora
e. Althou
h
arallel SCSI has continued to mature with Ultra320
I—
v
r
i
n—
I
n
r
r
er
ormance saturation because o
the limitations o
the
ara
e
us arc
itecture. A
so, para
e
SCSI can
imit
scalabilit
because o
the restricted addressabilit
o
SCSI
evices, w
ic
is 16 IDs per SCSI
us
he SAS protocol was developed to address needs
or high per
ormance and addressability o
direct
attach stora
e. This protocol builds upon mature par-
allel SCSI technology and implements point-to-point
architecture that enables current speeds of 3 Gbps
er connection—thus, a 4X connection
rovides u
to 12 G
ps. T
e SAS protoco
a
so provi
es support
or SAS and Serial ATA
SATA
devices in the same
environment
ith its point-to-point architecture, the SAS protocol
im
lements ex
anders to allow the connection o
more
drives than ports. SAS expanders are physical device–level,
BY
AN
RAM KADA
Scaling Direct Attach Storage
with the Dell PowerVault MD1000 Storage Ex
ansion Enclosure
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) introduces new levels of performance and scalability for
direct attach storage. To take advantage of industry-standard SAS technology, Dell
offers the Dell
™
PowerVault
™
MD1000 storage expansion enclosure. When combined
with the Dell PowerEdge
™
RAID Controller 5/Extended and the Dell OpenManage
™
Server Administrator application, the PowerVault MD1000 can provide a comprehen-
sive SAS storage system.
Related Categories:
Dell PowerVault storage
RAID controllers
Serial ATA (SATA)
Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)
Storage
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for the complete category index.
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