Boston Igloo 24T-Stor

Key Features 24TB of raw storage in a 4U rack system Can function as a NAS server and present iSCSI targets as well Takes full advantage of the latest high-capacity SATA hard disks News & Reviews PC Pro Recommends Boston Igloo 24T-Stor

Introduction

The Boston Igloo 24T-Stor is a compact appliance offering a wealth of storage plus the best of both NAS and iSCSI.

Specifications

4U rack chassis

24 hot-swap drive bays

Supermicro X7DVL-E motherboard

1.6GHz Xeon 5110

8GB 667MHz FB-DIMM

Open-E Data Storage Server preinstalled on USB DiskOnModule

AMCC 3ware 9650SE-24M8 SATA RAID PCI-E card with 512MB cache supports RAID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50 with optional battery backed cache

24 x 1TB Hitachi Ultrastar SATA/3Gb/sec hard disks

Under 2 x gigabit Ethernet

Optional 10GbE and Fibre Channel Connectivity

2 x hot-plug 900W power supplies

Web management

Software Options

All in one software for centralised IP-Storage Management, combining:

Network Attached Storage (NAS)

iSCSI target

iSCSI initiator

Fibre Channel target

Fibre Channel initiator

Backup Appliance

Last Updated: 06 February 2008