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Sans Digital Introduces New Storage Networking Solution

Sans Digital has announced its new EliteRAID ER104I+B and ER208I+B, 1U 4-bay and 2U 8-bay rack mounts implemented with iSCSI hardware and RAID engines to provide up to 100MB/s per channel, and up to RAID level 6 or 60 for data protection. As noted in the company's news release on Benchmark Reviews, the new solutions also support VMware ESX server for storage virtualization.

"The ER104I+B and ER208I+B are designed with improved read / write speeds, which allow full utilization of maximum Gigabit Ethernet bandwidth. iSCSI dedicated engine along with Intel IOP processor allow the offloading of complex RAID calculations, where data could be protected by RAID 6 / 60 without sacrificing performance. With dual gigabit network port supporting MPIO and SCSI-3 persistent reservation, both models are capable of providing high availability options for clustering servers. The ER104I+ and ER208I+ offer cross platform support in Windows, MAC, and Linux, allowing a mixed networking environment. Built-in IP based Web Management interface, along with serial and SSH connection, provide easy system monitoring and managing anywhere within the network. Optional redundant power supplies are available for mission critical environment."