Improve performance and reduce cost. SC5020 leverages modern architecture to optimize the economic benefits of the data center while providing transformative solid state, hard disk, or hybrid storage performance, automatically saving storage costs. The SC series offers lower flash and hybrid flash effective unit GB prices *, giving companies of any size an essential technological advantage to help them compete in today's rapidly changing market. Highlights include: Data Progression-IOPS goals can be achieved with a lower-cost combination of storage media, even with changing performance requirements. Deduplication and compression-significantly reduces the raw capacity required to store data. RAID tiering-eliminates manual settings and improves efficiency and utilization. Federation-simplify multi-array environments with fast, seamless data movement and help with active load balancing through Live Migrate and Volume Advisor. ProSupport Services-use remote installation options to ensure a smooth start of the project and reduce deployment costs. Permanent software licensing-investment to meet future needs and minimize upgrade and expansion costs
New hardware platform. SC5020 has strong performance and is the next generation of the popular SC4020 array. Equipped with dual 8-core Intel processors, 4x memory and a 12-Gb SAS backend, the SC5020 achieves the following advantages. IOPS increases by up to 45% *. Up to 3x increase in bandwidth (GB/ seconds) *. Tripling the maximum capacity. The new 3U all-in-one chassis includes 30 drive bays and dual hot-swappable controllers that provide up to 460 TB of raw capacity in a compact unit. You can expand the capacity of each array to more than 2 PB* with a variety of expansion enclosures-making it possible to scale out on a larger scale in a federated multi-array system. But the advantages are not limited to fast hardware. SC5020 includes all the features of the Storage Center operating system (SCOS) to meet your expectations for SC series storage.
Give intelligent advantages to modern workloads. Based on actual usage and application performance requirements, the SC series Data Progression features dynamically optimize multiple drive tiers and RAID levels to improve performance and cost savings. By default, all new data is written to the fastest Tier 1 drive, with a performance level of RAID 10, which is then converted to an affordable RAID 5 Unix 6 (on the same hard drive) for subsequent reading. As the data storage time increases, the system moves it to lower-cost storage until it is again more active. The data will be exactly where it is needed, ensuring that IOPS remains at a high level while ensuring that cost savings are achieved.
