RAIDZONE Features

• Each RAIDZONE SmartCan holds 5 disks in the space of 3 standard half-height slots.
• Supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5 & 10 with easy-to-use configuration software on Windows NT.
• Full hot swap, hot spare, and on-the-fly rebuild capabilities, plus temperature, power and fan speed monitoring and SMART drive diagnostics.
• Multiple SmartCans (each with 5 disks) can be installed internally, or pre-configured externally in tower or rack mount units with redundant hot-swappable power supplies.
• Uses low cost, high performance Ultra ATA (33 MB/sec) drives.

Some Standard RAIDZONE Configurations

RAIDZONE Overview

The RAIDZONE family of disk array solutions provides large amounts of reliable, high performance, feature-rich disk storage in a compact and affordable package.

All RAIDZONE solutions are based on the SmartCan, a unique high density, hot pluggable disk enclosure that allows 5 standard 3.5-inch disks to be mounted in the space of 3 half-height devices. One or more SmartCans can be installed internally in a computer case, or installed in rack mount or tower enclosures for external connection to the computer.

Each SmartCan contains five independent VLSI disk controller chips, each of which is capable of using DMA to independently tranfer data directly between a disk and the computer's PCI bus. This enables RAIDZONE disk arrays to achieve extremely high aggregate throughput from multiple high speed disks. In addition, each SmartCan contains its own pair of hot-swappable fans, and an array of monitoring, diagnostic and display components.

RAIDZONE Disk Administrator software is currently available for  Windows NT. Its easy-to-use GUI interface supports RAID 0 (striping), RAID 1 (mirroring), RAID5 and RAID 10 (striped mirrors) capabilities. Hot swapping and hot spare are both supported, and detailed status reports and diagnostics are provided for each disk, each SmartCan enclosure, and each controller card.