After a record year and entering profitability for the first time since its 2006 IPO, Isilon last week announced three new network attached storage (NAS) systems that incorporate STEC Serial ATA based solid state drives (SSDs) along with either low cost-per-gigabit Serial ATA arrays (X-Series) or high-performing serial attached SCSI (SAS) arrays (S-Series).
After a record year and entering profitability for the first time since its 2006 IPO, Isilon last week announced three new network attached storage (NAS) systems that incorporate STEC Serial ATA based solid state drives (SSD) along with either low cost-per-gigabit Serial ATA arrays (X-Series) or high-performing serial attached SCSI (SAS) arrays (S-Series).
Isilon boosts speed, capacity with new NAS boxes
Scale-out NAS is rapidly becoming the choice of many organizations that are having difficulty with their storage-area networks in context with higher throughput demands over wider areas.
Since the Isilon units have their own file system, metadata can automatically be placed on SSD while writing everything else to the hard disk drive. This makes the placement algorithm totally transparent and does not add any administrative burden to the user in terms of policy development.
The 10000X-SSD has 200GB of SSD and 10TB of 7,200 RPM Serial ATA hard disk per node while the 32000X-SSD sports 400GB of SSD and 32TB per node. The high-performing 5000S-SSD has 100GB of SSD and 5TB of 15,000 RPM SAS HDD. The Isilon 5000S-SSD, 10000X-SSD and 32000X-SSD deliver an 8X improvement in latency and twice the IOPS performance over Isilon’s non-SSD products, increasing workflow performance and business productivity.
SPEC benchmark data will be forthcoming.
The 10000X-SSD lists at $65,000 per node and the 32000X-SSD has a list price of $125,000 per node. The 5000S-SSD lists at $59,000 per node. All systems are in beta with production units expected in April.
