• Up to 42 TB in 4U rack
• Enterprise SATA RAID functionality
• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 1+0, 4, 5, & 6
• AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Technology
• Dual RAID controller option
• OS-independent, web-based management
• Multi-unit management from single GUI
• Three-Year Advance Exchange Warranty
• 24 x 7 tech support
• Global and Dedicated Hot Spares
• Hot Swap components
• Continual event monitoring
• Active/Dynamic phone home notification
• Adjustable stripe width
• Automatic sector re-mapping
• Up to 32/64 LUNs
• Write-back data cache memory bus
• User-settable priorities for dynamic array operations
• Serial port access
• System settings stored in non-volatile flash memory
• Parity Scrub / Array Verify scheduling

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.

D2D - Disk to Disk Backup

Online access to data means superior business continuity. With SATABeast you no longer need to store important data on slow and inaccessible media such as tape or optical. SATABeast provides the speed, fault tolerance and availability to deliver superior disk-based backup with a smaller footprint and less cost than tape libraries

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Secondary Storage

The enterprise class features and performance of the SATABeast enable large file repositories for thousands of users to be stored on a single system. Completely OS independent, SATABeast requires no drivers and easily integrates into existing storage infrastructures.

Fixed Content Archive

The unmatched capacity of the SATABeast easily handles enormous volumes of files. With its energy saving AutoMAID™ technology, SATABeast enables massive archives to be cost-effectively stored and instantly accessed.

Cost Correct Enterprise Class Reliability

SATABeast is the first storage high performance, high capacity RAID storage system that also offers 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 provides a compact footprint and scales to 210 cost-correct terabytes of capacity in a single rack, SATABeast easily meets the demands of large-scale storage environments.

Advanced Features

• Based on the latest SATA high-speed disk drives
• Scalable design; 7 to 42 TB in 4U rack
• Reduced energy consumption and costs through AutoMAID™ technology.
• OS independent
• Platform-independent web-based management & RS232 Management
• WorldView™ - Provides ability to manage and configure multiple Nexsan units from a single GUI
• High performance – over 700 MB/s sustained throughput
• High IOPS performance -- all 42 drives can be active simultaneously
• Online SATABeast delivers access to data up to 500 times faster than tape libraries and 20x faster than other MAID systems.
• Hot-pluggable drives, controllers and power supplies
• Single or dual RAID controllers

• Up to 2GB cache per controller

• Auto-negotiating 10/100/1000 host speed
• Supports RAID 0, 1. 1+0, 4, 5, & 6
• Up to 32 LUNS supported per controller

• Supports multiple RAID sets and multiple volumes per set

• LUN security
• LUN Masking
• Horizontal midplane design promotes superior airflow and alleviates insertion stress points
• Anti-Accumulative Rotational Vibration (ARV) design enables maximum drive reliability.

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.

NexScan GUI

Configuration and Management
NexScan™ is Nexsan's embedded WEB enabled GUI (Graphical User Interface). Platform independent access to your system from any standard internet browser or from any host computer either directly connected or via a LAN or WAN. No software or patches required.

• Additional access via the RS-232 serial port or network interface to an ANSI terminal or emulator.
• Event log for all significant events stored on disk.·
• Single click access to summary of all problems and warnings.
• Array is verified before being put into production; automatic "parity scrub" (array verify) is performed as a background task every 24 hours thereafter.·
• Shows status of disk drives, power supplies, fans, RAID controller.
• Information is automatically refreshed at a settable interval.
• Complete hardware status page lists all significant hardware conditions such as voltages, temperature, battery mode, cache settings, network settings, and blower RPM
• Supports automatic IP address assignment via DHCP, manually using IP Gleaning, over serial port, or via web page.
• Cache management page allows configuration of Cache as enabled or disabled, or remotely settable via standard SCSI commands
• Configure and monitor subsystem using any standard web browser.
• SAF-TE and SMART environmental monitoring support.
• DNS support for symbolic addresses.
• Build RAID sets (and set RAID level and stripe size), partition RAID sets into Volumes, map Volumes to LUNs and Host Ports, and manage Spares
• For each drive, complete Model Name, Capacity, Serial Number, and Firmware Revision is reported along with errors and retries, if any.
• Alerts and warnings sent out using SMTP email alerts with problem summary, hyperlink to the enclosure management page, plus user-defined fields.
• Extra security feature requires manual confirmation of destructive media operations.
• Battery-backed Real Time Clock/Calendar is used to time stamp all major events
• Supports SNMP

TeleGuard - Phone Home
Tele-Guard is Nexsan Technologies' phone home feature incorporated within the ATABeast. Tele-Guard™ monitors all system parameters and you can select either single or multiple user alerts to be sent via e-mail, Internet based SMS notification or Tele-Guard's™ pager support.