HeritageRAID-SC RAID systems provide you with the finest combination of reliability, capacity, and performance to meet the requirements of today's most demanding applications. For database, NAS, data warehousing, video & audio editing, imaging and pre-press applications, HeritageRAID-SC has the flexibility and power for all your business critical needs.

HeritageRAID-SC systems attach directly to servers, workstations, or NAS engines where performance and reliability is critical.

Performance
Equipped with a 64-bit RISC processor and a 266 MHz data bus architecture, the HeritageRAID-SC is designed for performance critical applications and environments. A HeritageRAID-SC system delivers sustained reads of up to 512 MB/s and sustained writes of up to 326 MB/s in a 16 drive RAID-5 configuration.

Reliability and Data Availability
HeritageRAID-SC provides high data availability with support for RAID levels 0, 1, (0+1), 3, 5, 10, 30 & 50. Other features such as battery-backed cache, hot swappable drives, global & dedicated hot spares, automatic drive failure detection, automatic background rebuild, and redundant load sharing power supplies and cooling fans ensure that your data is available in the event of a component failure. All components are hot-pluggable.

Smart Technologies

IOSmart
IOSmart allows for the flexible configuration of logical drives, logical volumes and logical partitions and ensures instant RAID availability via background logical drive initialization. The firmware’s embedded intelligent algorithms, such as Adaptive Write Policy and Guaranteed Latency I/O, improve the performance of sequential write applications and ensure the fast and continuous flow of data.

DrvSmart
The DrvSmart utility provides an easy way to store data while keeping it safe. One of the main DrvSmart functions, Media Scan, retrieves data from degraded or damaged hard drives and handles low quality drives in both the degraded mode and during the rebuild process. Other DrvSmart features include disk cloning, drive roaming, SMART, transparent resetting of non-responsive hard drives, and RAID parity update tracking and recovery.

SysSmart
In addition to RAID protection for the disk drives, the SysSmart feature automatically changes the data cache policy to write-through mode when abnormal conditions are detected, such as a PSU/cooling module failure, low BBU or UPS battery charge, etc. By using the firmware to control the rotation speed of the enclosure’s dual-speed fans, the fan rotation speed is raised to a higher level when critical conditions are detected, such as a PSU or fan failure. Fan speed returns to the lower setting when normal operating status is restored. Control over caching behaviors, as well as voltage and temperature self-diagnostics is also related to enclosure conditions.

Manageability
Management and monitoring of HeritageRAID-SC systems can be performed via an RS-232 terminal session or the network-based/in-band RAIDWatch management GUI.

RAIDWatch Manager
Accessible via TCP/IP or in-band, RAIDWatch is an easy-to-use, Java-based GUI RAID management software application. Operating under Java 2.0 (Java Run-time Environment 1.2 or 1.3), RAIDWatch provides a complete management interface to the RAID system and a constant real-time report of the current RAID status, errors, events, and capacity.

RAIDWatch enables administrators to quickly locate and rectify problematic hardware without downtime or data loss. Many RAID controller functions, such as RAID setup, RAID expansion, password management and firmware upgrades can be handled through the software console. The info window provides information on all installed hard drives and the key elements of the RAID controller. RAIDWatch also enables administrators to monitor current cache data status and system environmental conditions such as temperature and power.

Administrators can be notified virtually anywhere of events occurred by the powerful event notification utility, NPC ( Notification Processing Center). Notification takes place via e-mail, LAN broadcast, SNMP, fax, cell phone, and/or pager.

Configuration & Scalability

HeritageRAID-SC features 12 or 16 hot swappable U320 SCSI drives for capacity up to 4.8 TB in a single enclosure