OWC Jupiter Mini-SAS
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1.1 OWC JUPITER OVERVIEW
1.1.1 Jupiter
Whether you’re an entrepreneur, IT manager, five-person design firm, or Hollywood studio, oWC Jupiter is the
perfect high-speed scalable storage solution that can grow and adapt to ever-increasing storage needs.
With Jupiter, users can now combine the highest levels of data sharing performance with the simplicity of direct
attached storage (Das) and achieve speeds 6x faster than traditional san technologies. Jupiter is also easy on the
budget at a fraction of the cost of traditional san technologies.
1.1.2 Jupiter family
Storage
When it comes to storage, Jupiter truly lives up to its namesake’s stature. start with just an 8Tb rack, and with its
scalability, Jupiter can be built with expander units and switches to accommodate up to 3600Tb (3.6 Petabytes).
You can also utilize ssDs or hard drives to best fit your storage needs. Jupiter is available as a standalone storage
solution, and as a RaID storage subsystem that supports RaID 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, 50, 60 and JboD.
Connectivity
With Jupiter, get ready for speeds that are out of this world. simply install the low profile, two-port Jupiter
mini-sas PCIe Card into any computer, workstation or server that accepts PCIe cards to experience the extreme
performance benefits of oWC Jupiter mini-sas enterprise-class storage. Use a single mini-sas connection for up
to 24Gbp/s or use both connections for up to 48Gbp/s performance.
Switches
need to expand? Connect multiple Jupiter storage systems with the powerful enterprise-class switch – available
with 8 or 16 ports. Jupiter switches feature an expansion mini-sas port and can seamlessly integrate within an
existing fibre infrastructure. Jupiter switches have six mini-sas connections to connect multiple Jupiter storage
systems in a variety of ways and two host mini-sas Connections allow you to connect to a single host system to
get peak performance.
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