Need lots of fast storage, with easy options for future expansion? At HD World in new York and HD Expo in Burbank last month, Aberdeen pitched its new 50 TB Stirling X881 server ($22,000) directly at the HD post-production market. The X881 is spec’d to deliver up to 64 concurrent HD video streams.
“With the Stirling, you can easily increase the storage availability up to nearly half a petabyte one step at a time,” said Aberdeen Executive VP Jack Tateel in a prepared statement. “An organization can puchase a 50 TB NAS appliance today and expand to well over 400 TB in 16 TB increments as future needs dictate.”
Stirling servers can be expanded, with cascading 16 TB Aberdeen JBODs, up to 128 TB, and users can get an additional 240 TB of storage by daisy-chaining Aberdeen’s XDAS RAID enclosures, the company said.
The server uses the Intel 5400 chipset and Quad Core intel Xeon 5400 series 45nm processors with a 1600 MHz front-side bus and 12 MB L2 cache. (The company says it can be used with dual-core 5100 series processors for “entry level” applications.) It has quad-gigabit Ethernet LAN and dual SAS expansion ports, and can reach transfer rates up to 430 MB/sec with an added Aberdeen XDAS-iSCSI RAID enclosure, the company said. The company clocks the unit’s internal transfer speeds at 1200 MB/sec.
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