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EqualLogic : PS Series DS601

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In less than 20 minutes after opening the box, with just a few simple steps and without special expertise, you can have an enterprise-class SAN that can be provisioned as needed - simply, seamlessly and without downtime.

PS Series - Intelligent, Enterprise-Class Storage
Founded on the premise of simplifying networked storage, EqualLogic's PS Series is a family of intelligent, iSCSI-based storage arrays that fundamentally change storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades. The PS family consists of the PS50E, PS100E, PS100X, PS200E, PS300E, PS800E, PS1200E, PS1600E, and PS2400E. All configurations are completely interoperable and upgradeable with performance and capacity scaling from a single TB to over 100TB - without disruption of application or data availability.

Enterprise Reliability- Each PS array offers fully-redundant, hot-swappable components including controllers, fan trays, and power supplies. Support for RAID 10 and 50, hot drive sparing, automatic failover and rebuild, and patent-pending proactive media error detection means bottom line: 99.999% data availability or 5 minutes of planned downtime per year.

Enterprise Performance - Starting with 300 MB/sec and 60,000 IOPS, and scaling to more than a million IOPS, the PS Series delivers unmatched performance in its class. Automated load balancing seamlessly moves data across all active RAID sets, maximizing performance by intelligently optimizing network connections, cache, and controllers in real time.

Enterprise Data Services - The PS Series comes standard with a comprehensive set of software features including virtual volume management and space-efficient snapshots for instant backup and restore, volume cloning for rapid server provisioning, and Auto-Replication, multi-path I/O support, and cluster support for comprehensive disaster recovery.

Choose the PS Series array that fits your requirements today with the confidence that you can scale to meet your future needs - without a forklift upgrade or application downtime!

Economical Entry into Enterprise Storage
EqualLogic offers an unmatched entry point into an enterprise SAN for organizations looking for a tactical storage solution with an eye towards future strategic growth. The PS50E can be unpacked, racked, and fully configured in less than 20 minutes. Its ease-of-use, performance and seamless scalability make it ideal for Web services, databases, file/print, and e-mail applications.

High-end Performance without Complexity
Equipped with (14) 10,000 RPM Western Digital Raptor® disk drives, the PS100X offers more than a TB of high performance storage in a fully-redundant, dual-controller system. The PS100X automatically optimizes array performance without special tuning required, making it a perfect storage system for the intense I/O workloads of enterprise transactional databases.

Comprehensive, Reliable, Proven.
With best-in-class performance of more than 300 MB/sec and 60,000 IOPS, the PS100E, PS200E, and PS300E are full-featured, completely redundant storage arrays that are easy to set up, manage and scale. With capacities including 3.5TB, 5.6TB, and 7.0TB, these storage systems are proven, reliable storage solutions well suited for database, e-mail, file/print, and Web services applications.

Capacity without Compromise
Designed for organizations that require capacity without compromising performance, the PS800E and PS1600E delivers 22.4 TB and 44.8 TB at up to 1,200 MB/sec and 240,000 IOPS. Additionally, the PS1200E and PS2400E deliver 28TB and 56TB at up to 1200 MB/sec and 240,000 IOPS. Like all PS Series arrays, these storage platforms can scale up to 100 TB offering a high-end storage platform for data warehousing, life sciences, large databases, streaming media, and geophysical applications in the mid-sized data center.

The PS Series storage arrays can improve Microsoft applications such as Microsoft® SQL Server 2000 and Microsoft® Exchange® 2003.