If you're looking for a really smart way to provide high performance yet cost effective Network storage, adding an iSCSI or NAS storage solution to your network could be the key. iSCSI works on blocks rather than packets which means it can easily achieve performance up to the maximum offered by the network technology used, which is typically Gigabit. While NAS provides the most flexible in networked storage for machines connecting to it. Depending on the RAID level chosen and the number of drives installed, its easily possible to achieve data transfer rates higher than 90MB/sec or faster than a single modern SATA-II drive, to users over your network. It's easily managed through a secure web page, and offers the security and or speed of user selectable RAID level of 0, 1, 5 or 10. The IG24T offers scalebale user capacity of up to 16 x 1TB drives giving 23TB of RAID 5 protected storage, or 24TB of JBOD capacity.

 

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IG Intel® Core Duo Xeon™ 5110 1.6GHz/1066/LGA CPU £9,215.00 £10,827.63
Last Updated 13 August 2010

System

IG24T 4U NAS/iSCSI Storage Server Solution with 24TB Storage & 3yr On-Site

• Features 24x Hot Swap Bays each with a 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar SATA Drives
• Xeon Dual-Core CPU, 4GB DDR2 Memory & PCIe Battery Backed RAID
• Supports RAID 0,1,5,10 & JDOB. IPMI 2.0 Server management
• Dual redundant Power supplies. Dual Gigabit LAN Interfaces
• Storage Server OS - Open-E DSS Enterprise supporting iSCSI & NAS
• 3 Years onsite warranty included (UK mainland)
• More information is available here

 

Hard drive

24 x Hitachi Ultrastar A7K1000 1000GB 7200RPM 32MB Cache

• Interface: SATA II 3.0Gb/s
• SATA II 3.0Gb/s interface, 7,200 RPM Rotational Speed
• 8.2ms Average Seek, 32MB cache. Native Command Queuing (NCQ)
• Acoustics: Idle Mode 2.9 Bels (average)
• 5 Year Warranty
• More information is available here