The SANgear™ 8002 RAID Controller Pair was designed to be the most powerful and versatile Active-Active Fibre Channel RAID controllers on the market. Featuring 8 fully independent 2 Gb Fibre Channel connections per controller, dual special purpose processors, and a high speed multi-channel bus architecture, these controllers move data from drive to desktop faster than any other controller. Their advanced design accelerates RAID operations, improves read and write performance and maximizes data throughput. The 8 independent channels enable you to put the bandwidth where you need it addressing host or disk side bottlenecks. The SANgear 8002 Controller can scale to support 840 drives – delivering over 630 TB of storage.

KEY BENEFITS:

Continuous Data Availability

The SANgear 8002 RAID Controller Pair offers an incredible number of design features to maximize system uptime. This includes expanded RAID options to support a hierarchy of availability and the flexibility to configure drives using channel redundancy, cross drive enclosure RAID groups, or multiple drive-channel RAID configuration. The SANgear 8002 RAID also performs active monitoring of all subsystem components including power supplies, fans, disk, Fibre Channels, temperatures, and UPS. Add to this its automatic drive failure detection and reconstruction, and its fully redundant hot-swap architecture -- the SANgear 8002 RAID Controller Pair delivers unprecedented levels of confidence and worry-free operation.

Incredible Versatility

Because the SANgear 8002 RAID Controller Pair is so powerful, versatile, scalable and reliable, it is ideal for a wide variety of applications and environments. It is equally at home serving streaming media as it is performing online transaction processing. It can perform complex database operations as easily as it serves up email messages and web content. It is unquestionably the most versatile RAID controller on the market for building flexible, long lasting storage solutions.

Simplified Management

To simplify system configuration and management, the SANgear 8002 RAID Controller Pair comes with a powerful, yet flexible embedded RAID manager. With SANgear's RAID manager, there is no software to purchase or install -- it is ready to run out of the box -- which significantly speeds deployments of any size and configuration. Simply attach an Ethernet cable to the SANgear 8002 RAID Controllers, and use a browser from any network location to easily initialize, configure, monitor and maintain the SANgear 8002 using an ultra intuitive user interface.

The RAID manager also offers multiple security levels, proactive email alerts and an on-controller front panel VFD (Vacuum Fluorescent Display) to provide storage managers with increased control, flexibility and visibility. This multi-format management approach enables users to easily create and modify RAID configurations, define individual LUN characteristics and their caching parameters, receive alert notifications, and add new drives without interrupting operation. Best of all, the RAID manager is so easy to use, no special training or skills are necessary to manage even the most sophisticated configurations.

RAID Functionality

For data availability, the SANgear 8002 Controller offers multiple RAID levels assignable by LUN to optimize performance across a variety of applications. The flexibility of 8 independent Fibre Channels facilitates a wide selection of enhanced availability configurations using channel redundancy, cross enclosure RAID groups and multiple drive/channel redundancy schemes. This controller performs active monitoring of all subsystem components including power supplies, fans, disks, Fibre Channels, temperatures, and UPS. It also includes automatic drive failure detection and repair, hot swap detection and reconstruction, user defined sparing policies and controlled shutdown in the event of a UPS failure. Add to this the true "no single point-of-failure" Active-Active functionality, the SANgear™ 8002 delivers unprecedented levels of confidence and worry-free operation to storage managers. The convenient front panel VFD puts control at your fingertips to configure and monitor the SANgear 8002 right from your data center.

But this is only half the story. More importantly, because the SANgear 8002 Controller is so powerful, versatile, scalable and reliable, it can be used in a wide variety of applications and environments. It can be configured for the extremes in performance or the limits of scalability, and everything in between, while still delivering superior fault tolerance.