Fueled by radical advances in digital video production, medical screening, CCTV surveillance, disk-to-disk backup and new requirements for securities compliance, the explosion in digital content creation continues unabated. The sheer volume and wide range of digital information present a unique challenge for the storage manager, requiring solutions that deliver low cost and power efficient, high-performance storage across the enterprise. The Xyratex F5404E provides up to 96 TB of SATA Fibre Channel attached disk-based storage.

Realize Value from Storage 24/7 - Xyratex RAID Solutions
OEMs and solution integrators now require ever more sophisticated systems and solutions capable of managing and maintaining this vast amount of business critical data. They are also under considerable pressure to address four key challenges: shorten time to market; reduce test, integration, warranty and service costs; increase reliability; and bolster customer satisfaction.
Xyratex RAID solutions reduce development costs, feature enterprise-class RAID functionality including RAID-6 and Snapshot, support high availability, dual controller configuration support and are highly reliable.

Redefining Flexibility and Availability – Xyratex F5404E
The Xyratex F5404E was engineered to address these demands, combining 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) RAID connectivity with Serial ATA II (SATA) disk drives, and Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) expansion technology, offering affordable RAID data storage and high performance capabilities.

The Xyratex F5404E sets a new standard in the design of mass storage enclosures to provide customers with unsurpassed disk storage capacity in a single enclosure. Housing 48 SATA drives in 4U of rack space, the F5404E can store 48TB of data in a single unit with EBOD expansion up to 96 TB. With a combination of high performance controllers and high-density packaging, the fully HA design of the F5404E increases the flexibility of storage deployment to the end user.

The Xyratex F5404E provides the bandwidth needs for disk-to-disk backup, archive and other storage intensive applications, while leveraging SAS full duplex, point-to-point architecture with dedicated connections for maximum data throughput. There is also no single point of failure, with two RAID controllers per chassis and host-based dynamic multi-pathing to maintain continuous access to application data. Meanwhile, the F5404E has the lowest power consumption (50 percent more TB/KW), and highest density (33 percent more TB/ft2) of any nearline storage RAID system on the market.

Manage Storage and Recovery from a Single Pane of Glass
Xyratex’s StorView software configures and administers the F5404E storage system. Automated control of individual controller’s cache, arrays and devices via a web-based interface simplifies storage administration, while StorView’s full-function Command Line Interface (CLI) allows integration of array management into existing operational procedures. Xyratex’s entire 5000 Series of RAID systems come standard with StorView management software, allowing for intuitive administration and performance monitoring. An optional upgrade to StorView Global Manager enables configuration, monitoring and management of 5000 Series RAID controllers from any location, anywhere on the network.

All models in the 5000 RAID series are also equipped with Snapshot, providing a point-in-time record of critical data stores. Four snapshots are available to start implementing immediate recovery capabilities, while an optional Snapshot upgrade allows for up to 24 snapshots per Logical Drive and up to eight Logical Drives in snapshot mode. The StorView software also enables access to the RAID Advanced Power Management which can be used to reduce the operational costs of the RAID storage system, while ensuring continuous availability to data. Xyratex Advanced Power Management can reduce energy consumption by up to 40%.