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SAS to SAS/SATA II JBOD Subsystem
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Chapter 1 Introduction
The 12 bays EPICa JBOD Subsystem
The EPICa EP-2123J/JD-S3S3 is a 19-inch 2U rackmount JBOD unit. It comes with 12
hot-swappable bays and is the Proware's most versatile SAS/SATA II Disk Expansion
system, ideal for high capacity and scalability storage in most popular OS
environments. Based on 3Gb SAS Channel host interfaces, the EP-2123J/JD-S3S3
supporting the choice of SAS and SATA II drive configurations to deliver the best
cost-performance index with higher bandwidth.
The ability to mix SAS and SATA drives allows the EP-2123J/JD-S3S3 to be used for
a range of applications that require different price/performance characteristics. Cost-
effective SATA drives can be selected for capacity orientated storage such as disk-to-
disk backup and the storage of reference data. Higher specification SAS drives can
be employed for I/O intensive applications including transactional databases. Hosting
multiple tiers of data in an EP-2123J/JD-S3S3 configuration gives organizations the
flexibility to meet both their technical requirements and budgetary constraints with a
single unified solution.