More Storage, Same Amount Of Space Aberdeen Stirling & AberNAS Solutions Now Support 4TB Hard Drives

Since 1991, Aberdeen has been design- instance, the AberNAS LX-Series works with ing and manufacturing scalable high- 64-bit Linux environments and the AberNAS capacity storage solutions for companies X8-Series is designed for the Microsoft in a wide variety of industries. Through Windows Storage Server 2008 OS. Aberdeen the years, the company has always strived also has a 32-bit Windows Storage Server to maximize the efficiency of its products 2003 R2 entry-level AberNAS model and in order to provide the most storage pos- other Linux-based solutions. sible to its customers. And even while For companies using Linux-based oper- Aberdeen releases new products, it con- ating systems in need of massive virtual- tinues to make improvements to its cur- ized storage arrays, the AberNAS LX-Series rently available solutions. The company has many great features. It now supports up made just such a change with its already to 8EB (exabytes) of storage and, with this popular Stirling and AberNAS product immense level of available storage, Aberdeen lines by increasing the potential storage has also included an easier to use GUI for capacity by 33%. 64-bit Linux environments so it’s much easier to manage your hard drive arrays. Support For 4TB Hard Drives Aberdeen’s AberNAS solutions are flexible Aberdeen’s Stirling and AberNAS solu- in that you can have as much as 264TB of tions have always been able to provide storage in a server to as little as 2TB in a 1U large amounts of storage, whether it was configuration. They feature support for RAID up to 198TB in a single server or as much 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD and SATA 3Gbps or as 1PB (petabyte) in an array. However, 6Gbps disk drives. In addition, these storage the company has now included support solutions are protected with snapshot data for Hitachi’s Nearline 24/7 4TB SATA recovery, hardware redundancy, and redun- hard disk drives, which improves on effi- dant hot-swappable power supplies. ciency and provides even more raw stor- age capacity than ever before. In fact, you Customizable & Scalable Solutions can now get as much as 16TB of storage As always, Aberdeen’s tech experts are available to help you configure the Stirling 1200MBps transfers. By combining all of and AberNAS storage solutions to your You can now get as much as 16TB these technologies into one solution, you can exact specifications. The products are expect superfast processing speeds and reli- designed for companies of all sizes, from able performance. a small business to the largest enterprise. of storage in a 1U model or up to 264TB Aberdeen also has four specific Stirling con- Plus, the Stirling and AberNAS solutions figurations with Intel® Xeon® Processor 5600 can grow alongside your company, leaving in an 8U rackmount configuration. onboard. The first is the 3U X339, which sup- enough space for you to quickly and easily ports up to 16 hard drives and up to 64TB scale your maximum storage capacity. P of capacity. The 5U X539 supports up to 24 in a 1U model or up to 264TB in an 8U Stirling Scalable Storage Servers hard drives and as much as 96TB of storage. Contact: rackmount configuration. In addition to the newly added support The two 8U models, the X889 and the X899, (800) 500-9526 | www.aberdeeninc.com This increase in capacity per hard drive for 4TB hard drives, Aberdeen’s Stirling have space for 48 and 64 hard drives and up makes it possible to pack more available Scalable Nearline Storage Servers are also to 192TB and 256TB of storage, respectively. storage into each system without the need packed with many other helpful features Because these systems are highly customizable Intel, Intel Logo, Intel Inside, Intel Inside Logo, to invest in additional servers. In addition for data centers. Each Stirling server uti- and can be easily combined to create an array, Pentium, Xeon, and Xeon to cutting down on equipment expendi- lizes Intel’s 5520 Chipset, Intel® Xeon® Aberdeen also added the option of expandable Inside are trademarks or registered trademarks of tures, the added capacity can also help free Processor 5600 series, and Intel microar- SAS2 storage up to 1PB and beyond. Intel Corporation or its up some much needed space in your data chitecture with Turbo Boost Technology. subsidiaries in the United States and other coun- center or even aid in the consolidation pro- Aberdeen’s Stirling servers also feature up AberNAS Solutions tries. Trademarks are the cess. As with all Aberdeen products, these to 192GB of DDR3 memory, a maximum For those in need of scalable, high-capacity property of their respec- tive owners. All rights configurations are highly customizable, so bandwidth of 32GBps, and much more. All NAS solutions, Aberdeen offers its AberNAS reserved. For terms and you can get the exact amount of storage Stirling servers are available in RAID 6, 0, line of products designed to work with the conditions, please see www. aberdeeninc.com/abpoly/ you need at exactly the right size. 1, 5, and 10 configurations with more than specific operating system you choose. For abterms.htm