The MediaVault 5108 8TB external PCIe storage array expands your based server or workstations, core logic PCIe bus outside of the box, enabling the ultimate in direct attached storage. At a raw speed of 20Gbps, overheads from protocol conversion to serial protocols such as Fibre Channel, Inifiniband or Ethernet are totally eliminated. Based on Ciprico’s robust RAIDCore™ host software stack, data is transferred directly from the disk drive cache to the host CPU’s memory, eliminating any host cache interference problems often encountered with traditional hardware accelerated RAID techniques.

Key Features

• 2, 4, 6, 8, 12 and 16TB or high performance SAS or SATA II storage
• RAID 0, 1, 1n, 5, 10, 10n, JBOD
• Zero buffer technology minimizes transfer latency
• Zero protocol conversion
• End to end high performance serial technology - all the way to the drives

MediaVault’s New Flexible RAID

Powered by Ciprico’s RAIDCore™ technology, MediaVault now offers a greatly enhanced RAID feature set including on-line capacity expansion, RAID level migration and flexible drive numbers and sizes. No longer is a user tied to a fixed number of drives. For example, the MV5108 8-drive family with 8 drives populated may be upgraded to a full 16 drive version by simply exchanging the 8 port card with a 16 port RAIDCore adapter and add additional drives one or more at a time expanding both capacity and speed incrementally in line with project needs.

Robust Data Protection and Management

Offering multiple levels of user selectable mirrored or striped parity RAID, the highest level of protection can be achieved. For the ultimate desktop protection, the MV5100SR offer users with the ability to use higher reliability SAS drives and dual redundant power supplies. A host based management utility with remote management provides detailed configuration and status monitoring options.

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