Green data storage scheme for Nexsan

Data center has become the biggest energy consumption center of many companies, how to reduce energy consumption, how to improve utilization efficiency, how to reduce operating cost? These are based on environmental protection and energy conservation considerations, so that green storage has become a new concept in recent years, a novel theme.

By the year 2008, Gartner argues, the current 50% data centers are facing power shortages and inadequate energy supplies to meet high-density equipment requirements. As energy demand continues to grow, more than 70% of companies will find that data center energy consumption will be their second-largest operating cost by the year 2009.

In a recent poll of senior U.S. companies, 76% of the administration involved in data center procurement said energy-saving products would be the preferred choice.

Nexsan Company is also convinced that energy-saving technology will greatly affect the storage industry's competitive landscape. Nexsan's Satabeast storage array, with its high density and high-capacity award for the U.S. "Low carbon Dioxide Future" awards. Recently, TechWorld's "Annual Green Product" award was awarded in the UK. The TechWorld awards are designed to certify and reward the industry's high standards of achievement, with over 200 certified projects per year as one of the benchmarks of the computer industry.

Brendan Kinkade, vice president of Nexsan Marketing, after gaining the honor of "Green storage Products", said: "We are delighted that the energy-saving functions provided by the Satabeast storage System can be recognized." "The application of the Nexsan Automaid Energy-saving technology enables Satabeast to not only have the power to ensure data's own access and secure storage, but only one-tenth of the traditional storage arrays per TB of storage, reducing total operating costs and carbon emissions over the year.

When asked about the main differences between Nexsan's green storage solution and other storage products, Brendan Kinkade noted that many storage products, when catering to green storage requirements, do not change the design of the product, only by loading a high-capacity disk to increase storage density. For Nexsan, energy-saving is the key feature of the product, from the product structure design as the starting point, the energy-saving technology is embedded into the product system in the process of product development. Today, TCO is a key factor for consumers to select devices for their data centers, and Nexsan's low operating costs, optimized performance solutions, have great advantages.

Two energy-saving design points of Nexsan products

One, high-density storage system satabeast

The following is a comparison table between the Satabeast high-density array and the traditional array, from which we can see that the Satabeast high-density storage array can:

Reduce energy consumption

Reduce refrigeration requirements

Space saving

Save money

Reduce operating costs

Reduce carbon dioxide emissions

Provide immediate ROI (investment yield)

Energy management--users can set the level of energy management, optimize storage, performance ratio.

Level 1: Head unload, energy saving 15%-20%, second-level recovery time

Level 2: Head unload, disk run down to 4000RPM, energy saving 35%-45%,15 second recovery time

Level 3: Drive pointer stop rotation (disk hibernate mode), energy saving 50%-70%,30 second recovery time

For example, 42TB of storage needs to consume 620 watts when it is idle and less than 250 watts when the Automaid is selected for Level 3.

System Management

Because of its flexibility to provide both fibre and iSCSI environments, and 10 times times more efficient than other traditional storage arrays, satabeast can ensure data accessibility and security while reducing overall operating costs and carbon dioxide emissions year in and year out.