Zero-Maintenance cache Protection
Brief
Adaptec Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection
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Estimating the cost of lost data is extremely hard to do. For
example, in smaller companies it may take more than 24 hours
to actually recover lost data causing further loss in productivity
and revenue. In some instances there is an additional financial
impact due to the cost of replacing/repairing whatever business
impact may be caused by the loss — for example helping
customers for whom banking or credit card transactions have
gone missing.
In order to not offer ridiculous numbers that depend to a
large degree on the nature of individual businesses, we simply
comment that the strategy noted here has about a 1 in 700
chance of suffering data loss (assuming that the system is
exposed for around 6 hours, and two power failures occur
per year).
The Bottom Line on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Obviously there are other scenarios that we could consider.
A favorite is to think of the driver who simply never changes
their oil — they drive the car and hope that it makes it through.
Sometimes you win, and the car makes it, sometimes you don’t
and the engine needs to be replaced.
Regardless of these, we have considered two reasonable cases
and the net result is:
Methodology
cost over 4-year Lifetime
taking proper care of your BBU
$2,480
reacting to BBU emergencies
$10,315 (Plus data loss risk)
Zero Maintenance cache Protection
Cost of the ZMCP module
Conclusion
By eliminating costly BBU technology and related expenses,
the Adaptec Series 6 (6Gb/sec), Series 6Q with maxCache 2.0
(6Gb/sec) and Series 5Z (3Gb/sec) family of RAID controllers
with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection offer the industry’s
most complete and efficient data protection solution available
today.