NEC D3-10 Storage

NEC Updated: 2008-04-14 RSS
NEC D3-10 Storage

NEC's D3-10 Storage Array is a mid-range model that offers excellent performance and TCO, including support for a mixed SAS/SATA configuration that meets the demands of differing quality of service requirements.

* Up to 144 HDDs for Maximsed Storage Capacity and ROI
* Up to 108TB of Total Storage Capacity
* 12 High Performance 4Gb/s FC Ports for High Throughput
* Double Parity RAID6 for Double HDD Failure Security
* Unique RAID TM for High Performance and Secured RAID 1
* Support for SAS & SATA HDDs in the same Subsystem
* MAID Technology for Reduced Power Cosumption
* Point in Time Snapshots with DynamicSnapVolume
* IntraStorage Replication with DynamicDataReplication
* InterStorage Replication with RemoteDataReplication
* Integrated Storage Management & Administration

The D3-10 supports up to 12 high speed 4Gbps host connections, high-performance RAID processors and up to 144 disk drives.

A disk array for customers with smaller storage requirements, NEC's D3-10 Storage Array has a standard 2U EIA cabinet with the capacity for 12 disk drives.

An additional 11 optional disk enclosures can be connected to the D3-10, providing a maximum capacity of 108TB with 144 disk drives. RAID-6 technology is included to ensure continued operation even if errors occur in two hard disks at the same time. This technology greatly enhances the availability of the disk array and can be used together with other storage pools such as RAID-1 and RAID-5.

High Performance RAID Processors
Performance is enhanced with new RAID engine which has high internal transfer speed. The load of the processor can be offloaded to the RAID engine.

Centralized management and operation by visualized Web client
The D Series offers GUI of Web client for every operation from installation to administration.

Operational status of the system components such as Storages, connected servers, logical disks and physical disks can be visualized.

SAS technology is leveraged
SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) has been adopted for the disk array. "Wide Link" technology of SAS can use 4 sets of 3Gbps SAS interface in parallel, enabling up to 12Gbps in transfer speeds.