CIFS & NFS
Node OS: RedHat® Linux
Node Options:
SSC-36: 36-Bay 4U Controller
SSA-45: 45-Bay 4U Array
File Virtualization:
F5® ARX 2000
CPU: Intel Xeon Quad Core
Chipset:Intel 5520 Tylersburg
Memory: 24GB DDR3 ECC
RAID Controller LSI 2100
Model: Deskstar
Capacity: 2.0 TB
Interface: SATA 3.0 Gb/s
RPM: 7200
Cache: 32MB
Space You Need At A Price You Can Afford
The SimplStor© line of storage arrays was designed to take advantage of increasingly sophisticated off the shelf hardware and open source software to provide low cost, high availability 2nd tier storage. Now, by combining the dense, highly available storage of SimpStor with F5’s ARX virtualization technology, we can offer the first truly affordable, single name space, petabyte solution.
Each SimplStor node takes advantage of the engineering efforts of Intel, SuperMicro, LSI, Hitachi and Red Hat to offer up to 338TB of RAID5/6 highly redundant storage in only 16U. These building blocks are combined under the F5 switch to offer a CIFS and NFS addressable virtual storage pool. Virtualization allows you to store and access your data as best fits your application, not your storage, and simplifies many other aspects of data management.
All SimplStor products include SimplSupport, our Enterprise class support package. 24/7 access to support engineers and Next Business Day (NBD) parts replacement means your data will be available when you need it. Systems are designed for easy parts replacement in the field, while redundant hot swap power supplies and hot spare/hot swap drives ensure minimal down time.
Utilizing SimplStor’s dense packaging, we’ve packaged 1014TB of raw storage and the F5 single name space technology in only 52U of rack space for less than $400,000 including the first year of Support for the complete package. That’s less than $.40/GB for highly redundant, very dense, single name space storage!

