Sans Digital introduces ES104TI, offers SAS
updated 02:35 pm EDT, Sat November 3, 2007
Sans Digital's new ES104TI
Sans Digital has introduced the EliteSTOR ES104TI, a 1U four-bay JBOD rackmount that supports both Serial ATA drives and serial-attached-SCSI drives. The ES104TI is a revised version of the ES104T, differing from the latter by offering SAS support by using Infiniband – which is also known as Multilane, SAS 4x or SFF-8470. Infiniband offers transfer speeds of up to 2.5GB/sec and support for up to 64,000 addressable devices as well as as increased reliability, better sharing of data between clustered processors, and built-in security. The rackmount unit supports four hot-swappable drives, allowing up to one terabyte per drive-sled. Sans Digital has not given pricing or availability as of the announcement.
The ES104TI offers four dedicated drive channels, which ensures that optimal performance to the attached computer or server. Using the quad-channel design, the rackmount could serve as a RAID host bus adapter for external storage.
