Sans Digital AccuSTOR AS212X12R Drive Enclosure - 12Gb/s SAS Host Interface - 2U Rack-mountable

Sans Digital AccuSTOR AS212X12R Drive Enclosure - 12Gb/s SAS Host Interface - 2U Rack-mountable

The AccuSTOR AS212X12R series is a high density 2U rackmount designed for storage hungry applications, and accommodates up to 96TB of storage space. Supporting latest SAS 12G technology, AS212X12R provide 6G solution for 12G SAS or 6G SATA drives. By utilizing the latest SAS expander technology, the AS212X12R supports up to 12 SAS or SATA drives using only one mini-SAS HD cable (SATA drives requires optional MUX board). A built-in SAS expansion port enables the system to connect up to 7 units or 84 HDD drives daisy-chained together, up to 672TB. With a high performance RAID controller card, the AS212X12R is capable of delivering over 2300MB/s in read and 2000MB/s write performance, doubling the existing 6G SAS expander bandwidth. System status information is provided by the LED, including hard drives, power supply and cooling fan status. All necessary hardware comes standard including mini-SAS HD cable and hard drives tray modules. Build-in with single controller with dual 12G SAS channel, and can upgrade to redundant controller in the future. The AS212X12R is an ideal storage expansion solution for servers or high performance video editing workstations. Supported in Windows, MAC and Linux, including various file system such as ZFS.

AS212X12R functions as expansion unit of AR212X12R and AR212F16R. With AR212X12R and AR212F16R as a RAID head unit and connect up to 7 units of AS212X12R, it will provide up to 96 bays, or 768TB of storage for 12G SAS and Fibre Channel 16Gb/s hardware RAID storage.

• Wide Range RAID Adapters Support - Compatible with Areca, LSI/AVAGO SAS MegaRAID, Intel SAS RAID, Adaptec SAS RAID, and 3Ware SAS RAID adapters.


• Dual IO /dual controller for fully redundancy - System come with redundant controller, cooling fan and power supply, complete redundant subsystems.


• Standard Redundant Power Supply - Hot-swappable, redundant power is included for protection against power failure. Power supply status can be easily monitored by the status LED and audible alarm alert.


• Multi-purposes - Supports both 12G SAS (Serial SCSI) and 6G SATA hard drives to meet the requirements of different applications with different price/performance characteristics. Cost-effective SATA drives could be used for capacity orientated storage such as disk-to-disk backup, data-archiving, and digital video editing. Enterprise level SAS drives could be employed for I/O intensive applications such as transactional databases. (SATA drives requires optional MUX board)


• Scalability - Supports up to 7 enclosures or up to 84 hard drives daisy-chained together for capacity expansion.


• Support Industry Standard SGPIO - Serial General Purpose Input/Output (SGPIO) is utilized to provide the hard drives health & enclosure real-time information via the mini-SAS HD connection cable to the HBA (host Bus Adapter) without additional serial cable.


• Staggering Spin-Up - Built-in staggering spin-up for hard drives during power up. Thus, extending the life / duty cycle of the hard drives and power supply.


• Superior Performance - With support of SATA 6G or SAS 12G hard drives and 48Gb/s bandwidth, performance can reach over 2,300MB/s in read and 2,000MB/s in write (tested with LSI/Avago, ATTO and Areca Controllers).


• Support 2.5" and 3.5" SATA/SAS/SSD - 12 of 3.5" hard drives tray supporting 3.5" hard drives, along with 2.5" form factor screw holes. (SATA drives requires optional MUX board)


• 12G SAS Expander Technology - Connect 12 SAS or SATA drives with only one single SFF-8644 to SFF- Mini-SAS cable to HBA (Host Bus Adapter) or RAID controllers. (SATA drives require MUX controller when use in dual controller mode.)