First SAN’s using 2TB drives spotted

Winchester Systems is the first major storage vendor I’ve seen offering 2TB drives as an option for their enterprise storage systems so far. The latest high-capacity drives are available as an option for their new FlashDisk SX-3400 and SX-2300 SATA disk arrays, enabling the SX-3400 to expand up to 224 TB of raw capacity. The high-end 3400 units have 16 drive slots, and can accept up to six extra expansion shelves.

sx-3400

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LSI to acquire ONStor

LSI has just announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire ONStor Inc; the deal is worth $25 million in cash. ONStor is mostly known for their Pantera line of SAN gateways and IP storage systems. Their other major product are the clustered NAS gateways, providing higly available frontends for large storage systems.

Cougar clustered NAS gateway

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