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Specification summary
Maximum number of drives
(via expansion systems)
1500 (with expansion board)
Drive advanced features
S.M.A.R.T. support, automatic bad sector
reassignment, dedicated bandwidth to each connected
drive
RAID functionality
Global, dedicated, or enclosure hot spare
RAID level supported: 0, 1 (0 + 1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30 60
Online expansion:
- Adding new drives
- Copying and replacing drives of larger capacity
RAID migration:
- Configurable stripe size and write policy per system
- Intelligent drive handling
• In degraded mode: skips irreparable blocks to
continue rebuild
• In normal operation: data-block verification and
repair
Supported protocols
File level protocol
- CIFS/SMB
- AFP
- NFS
- FTP
- FXP
-WebDAV
Block level protocol
- FC
- FCoE
- iSCSI
- InfiniBand
- SAS (expansion board)
Object protocol
- RESTful API
Cloud gateway
- Amazon S3
- Microsoft Azure
- Alibaba AliCloud
- OpenStack
Data protection and service
Thin provisioning
Remote replication*: Synchronous or asynchronous for
both block level and file level
Location replication**: Snapshot, volume copy/mirror
* Optional
** Available with Standard license and optional Advanced
license
Availability and reliability
- Redundant, hot-swappable hardware modules
- CacheSafe technology
- Multipathing support (EonPath)
- Device mapper support
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