High capacity disk storage array with revolutionary power saving technology

• Highest storage density in the industry - up to 42 TB in only 4U
• Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology greatly reduces power consumption and operating costs.
• Full Enterprise class performance and reliability.
• Dual function Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity with wire-speed performance. Flexible, scalable and completely OS independent, SATABeast easily supports a broad range of storage infrastructures.

» SATABeast Overview

Unleash the power of the SATABeast™ extreme density storage array from Nexsan Technologies. Designed from the ground up to set new standards for high-capacity storage systems, SATABeast delivers the industry's best performance and cost-effectiveness in a scalable disk solution. With unparalleled density, availability and energy efficiency, SATABeast maximizes the return on your storage hardware investment.

» Unleash the Beast for:

Primary Storage. Designed for enterprise class environments where reliability is an absolute, SATABeast’s high availability architecture features full redundancy across all active components. Blazing wire-speed read/write throughput and high IOPS performance make SATABeast the perfect choice for data-intensive applications.

Secondary Storage and D2D. Disk to Disk Backup. Online access to data means superior business continuity. The SATABeast provides the speed, fault tolerance and high availability to deliver superior data protection while its unmatched capacity easily handles enormous volumes of files. SATABeast enables unprecedented amounts of data to be cost-effectively stored and instantly accessed.

» Unprecedented Energy Savings

SATABeast and SATABoy from Nexsan are the first high performance, high capacity RAID storage systems to also offer the energy saving benefits of AutoMAID™ technology. AutoMAID™ (Massive Array of Idle Disks) allows SATABeast to place its disk drives to an idle state to conserve energy yet provide near-instantaneous access to data. SATABeast's unique combination of technologies delivers unsurpassed performance, reliability and cost savings for a broad range of storage requirements. With an extreme density design that provides a compact footprint and scales to 315 cost-correct terabytes of capacity in a single rack, SATABeast easily meets the demands of the most capacity-hungry storage environments.

» Advanced Features

• Enterprise class storage array built around the latest high-capacity SATA disk drives.
• High performance – over 700 MB/s sustained throughput
• Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology.
• All active components are redundant and individually hot-swappable
• Highest density per rack inch
• Supports RAID 0, 1, 1+0, 3, 5 and 6
• Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set
• Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points
• Integrated Fibre Channel and iSCSI connectivity for flexible implementation
• Completely OS independent. No special software drivers or server-based management applications required.
• Online SATABeast delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
• WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI
• Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration (ARV) design enables maximum drive reliability.
• Supports up to 32 LUNS per controller
• Embedded web-browsable GUI over 10/100/1000 port, supports email alerts and SNMP traps
• Up to 2GB cache per controller

» Key Benefits

• With SATABeast, Nexsan engineers have architected the industry's most complete and cost-effective high capacity storage system. SATABeast's advanced mechanical design provides superior cooling for optimal thermal operation, reduces drive vibration and delivers outstanding energy efficiency in an extreme density (42 drives in 4U high) form factor. SATABeast's unique design extends individual drive life and provides TCO savings year over year.
• SATABeast employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID™ energy saving technology. AutoMAID transparently places SATABeast disk drives in an idle state reducing power consumption and operational costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-saving benefits of MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks) without the limitations of slow access times and special host software. Nexsan's AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and enables users to determine the level of access speed and energy savings desired. AutoMAID is the first MAID architecture that supports VTL (Virtual Tape Libraries), full file format D2D and standard RAID implementations.
• Nexsan's award-winning Performance SATA™ RAID controller architecture utilizes dual RAID engines on each SATABeast controller to provide extremely high throughput performance across 42 spindles. SATABeast's 42 high capacity drives can be segmented into multiple RAID sets or a single large storage pool. LUN Mapping allows users to easily configure the massive disk capacity for dozens of servers or one.
• SATABeast performs continuous background integrity scans to ensure drive health and data accessibility. Each controller features full cache coherency to maintain data integrity even in the event of a power loss.
• All individual SATABeast components are fully redundant and hot swappable. This advanced design provides increased ROI by eliminating the need to replace an entire multi-drive blade should a single drive fail.
• SATABeast's NexScan management interface is built into the SATABeast controller, alleviating the need to have a separate server or application manage the storage array. This sophisticated management utility monitors and reports the status of all subsystems over a 10/100/1000-network port. Included in NexScan are Tele-Guard™, Nexsan's phone-home feature for user notification of errors or prediction of error, and WorldView, our multi-box management feature.

» Brochure

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Busi-Soft are the Platinum Nexsan Distributor for Australia and New Zealand. Nexsan Technologies is the worldwide leader in secure and energy-efficient (green) storage solutions, this includes the award winning SATABeast, SATABeast Xi, SASBeast, SASBoy, SATABoy, iSeries, DATABeast, & DeDupe SG. Busi-Soft are the Sole Australian and New Zealand reseller for the Assureon, Assureon SA and Assureon NX Appliances.

Busi-Soft and Nexsan partner together to offer secure storage appliances and modular, high capacity disk storage systems for a broad range of applications including fixed content storage and archiving, compliance and litigation support, primary storage, disk-based backup, digital video security, medical imaging, email and rich media. With a complete line of storage solutions that offer exceptional price/performance, Nexsan is the choice of Fortune Global 500 companies, major governmental agencies, and leading organizations worldwide.