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THE WORLD’S LARGEST High-Rely CAPACITY BACKUP CARTRIDGE Highly Reliable Systems
Introducing: Is your nightly backup job so large it won’t fit on conventional tape (or even a large hard drive)? The High-Rely RAIDFrame uses our unique PolyRAIDTM technology and holds up to 15 Te r a b y t e s o f fully redundant, removable backup in a 4U rack mount enclosure containing Five RAIDPacs .
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by High-Rely RAIDPacsTM REMOVABLE & PORTABLE: Each RAIDpac is self-contained and available in RAID5 configurations up to 2TB in size and (and coming soon) in RAID0 configurations up to 3TB. The cartridge houses three standard 5.25” SATA hard drives, a cooling system, and a stand-alone RAID 5 controller. RAIDpacs are flexible, redundant, and fast. They can be purchased with smaller drives and upgraded to larger drives as needed.
Drive sizes ranging from 80GB to 1TB are currently available and supported. RELIABILITY: Our company name says it all. Like our flagship High-Rely hard drive trays, the RAIDPac is designed for daily transport. It completely encloses and protects the hard drives inside. The connector used is rated for a high frequency of plugs and unplugs to survive the daily swap cycles needed in a backup product. Carefully designed hot-swap circuitry insures drives are powered down safely before a cartridge is pulled.
Engineered for Maximum Speed: Unlike conventional Network Attached Storage (NAS), the RAIDFrame attaches to your server or a PC with a single, industry standard eSATA connector. With data transfer rates up to 3Gbps (3 times faster than Gigabit ethernet) and no TCP/IP overhead, eSATA minimizes your backup window and outperforms conventional tape drives and NAS systems alike. When RAIDPacs are configured in RAID0 mode, the system has such high write speeds that backup speed will often depend more on the server and its source drive read speed than on the write speed of the RAIDFrame. In RAID5 mode, where write speeds are more modest, the RAIDPac still outperforms many tape drives. In addition, with the extra reliability of RAID5, the nightly backup window can be kept much shorter than tape by configuring the software to do frequent incremental backups.
Why struggle with tape? High-Rely e SATA Backup is Faster, More Reliable, and Less Expensive
High-Rely Industry Standard Emergency Access: Suppose you sustain a full catastrophic loss such as a fire or flood when using a tape system. Even if your tapes are stored offsite you will need to find an identical tape drive to restore your data. Since high density tapes are notorious for alignment problems, it’s possible you will still not be able to restore using the new tape drive. With a HighRely RAIDPac, emergency access to your data is available even if the RAIDFrame has been destroyed. Simply open the RAIDPac to expose an industry standard SATA connection useable on any SATA controller to gain access to your information. Rapid Restores: Hard drive based backup means that verifying and restoring your backup is trivial. Restoring an individual file or folder can be done in seconds because there is no time required to “fast forward” as is necessary with a tape.
We Understand the Need for Redundancy: Each RAIDPac is a fully stand-alone RAID sub-system. We call this technology “PolyRAIDTM”. With PolyRAID, even if there is a single drive failure in several of your RAIDPacs, your data is still accessible. LEDs on the front of each RAIDPac will tell you the health of each RAID5 array. Simply replace any failed drive and the RAIDPac will automatically rebuild itself . With our PolyRAID inline RAID technology, the host computer is unaware of the RAID process and no special drivers are needed. This makes moving large amounts of data from one system to another extremely easy.
Cost Effective: All the speed and capacity in the world won’t help if you can’t afford it. We’ve focused our engineering and manufacturing capability on producing a product that can compete with, and beat the price of, robotic tape libraries. Then we added an 18 month warranty and a low cost warranty option to upgrade to a premium 3 or 5 year warranty. This means you will have no surprise maintenance costs. Tape manufacturers have claimed for years that tape is the most inexpensive way to store data on a “per Gigabyte” basis. However In the field, many tape vendors recommend replacing tapes yearly to avoid CRC errors. Hard drives are rated at 3 to 5 years while running continuously (and much longer when run periodically), meaning that the cost of backup media over a 3 to 5 year lifespan is actually less with hard drives than with tape.
Our Hardware Focus Makes a Difference: At High-Rely, we don’t spend time writing backup software. That’s re-inventing a very complicated wheel. Chances are, you’ve already invested significant time and money in your existing software. Whether you are using conventional software such as Backup ExecTM, RetrospectTM, or ArcserveTM or the newer drive imaging products such as Backup Exec System RecoveryTM, True ImageTM, or ShadowProtectTM you will find the RAIDFrame hardware is a better choice than tapes. Of course, we do include our proprietary High-Rely Drive Manager service to insure that your Windows Operating System correctly recognizes each RAIDPac as you swap it in. (Trademarks above are registered to Symantec, Dantz, Computer Associates, Symantec, Acronis, and StorageCraft respectively)
A full Week or more of Backup Coverage: Many customers label their Five RAIDPacs Mon - Fri and then setup their backup software to use a different RAIDPac for each day of the work week. Even if the person responsible for swapping media is absent for the entire week, your backup job runs safely. Each RAIDPac will show up to the operating system as a separate stand-alone drive with its own drive letter or mount point.
Specifications Drive count: Up to 15 SATA hard drives Form Factor : 4U Rack mount 6.968 inches high, 17.272 inches wide(17.63” wide including Rack ears), 17.485 inches to rack ears (18.24 inches deep including handles on RAIDPacs that protrude in front). RAIDPack: 9 3/8 ” Deep, 5 7/8” Wide, 3 3/8” Thick. Weight: Empty of drives 30lbs. Fully populated with drives approximately 75lbs. RAIDpacs - 8 to 9lbs depending on drives. Media compatibility: Removable Drive Trays will accept any 3.5” wide SATA drive with standard 1” high form factor. Most SATA drives are compatible. Drives ranging from 80GB through 1TB drives have been tested. Trays can be upgraded with new drives. LED displays: 2 LEDs per hard drive indicate status of drives within RAID5 array. Green – Drive is healthy within RAID5 array, flashing red – Drive is rebuilding, Red - Drive is failed & offline. Controller (PC) Interface: RAIDFrame requires a PCI, PCI-e, PCI-X or other controller with a multi-drive compatible eSATA port. Certain Silicon Image chips (3132 and 3124) as well as the Marvell 88SX7042 chipsets have been certified. We highly recommend purchasing a High-Rely controller to insure best tech support and compatibility. A single eSATA cable (external) Male to Male cable 6 ft is included.
Performance: Exceeds many tape systems. Read speeds will generally be faster than stand-alone internal eSATA drives. RAID5 write speeds will vary but 35-40 Gigabytes per hour is typical. RAID0 write speeds will vary but can be in the range of 100 -165 Gigabytes per hour. These are rough guidelines only. Performance is highly dependent on the type of data, server, software, nature of the data backed up and many other variables. Software: Any industry standard backup software that supports removable hard drives may be used. HRDM2 Utility software is included to handle dynamically assigning and mapping drive letters in Windows. Compression: RAIDPac drives work with either operating system (NTFS) or backup software to achieve up to 2-to-1 data compression, (up to 6TB). Raid Creation/ Rebuild: Creating or rebuilding a RAID5 array takes about the same length of time. Larger arrays take longer to build. Build time is approximately 350GB/Hr. For example, Three 750GB hard drives configured as 1.5TB RAID5 array take about 4.5 hours to build or rebuild (depending on hard drives used and server activity). Warranty: High-Rely drives and media come with 18 month limited warranty that will repair or replace any component within 7 working days (typical). 3 and 5 year warranty upgrade with 1 day turn around are available at a slight additional cost.
Data Rate: eSATA data rates of 3.0Gpbs and 1.5Gbps are supported Operating System Support: Supports Windows XP, 2003, & Vista with latest Service packs. Open Source Unix & Linux drivers for Silicon Image chipset controllers are available on the Internet. Although these drivers are believed to work, High-Rely technical support does not answer questions on Linux and/or open source drivers.
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