Who is Xyratex?

Xyratex is a leading provider of enterprise class data storage subsystems and network technology. Building on over 20 years of research and development experience in disk drive development, storage systems and high-speed communication protocols, Xyratex designs and manufactures enabling technology that provides customers with data storage products to support high-performance storage and data communication networks.

Xyratex Corporate Info:
  ·  Over 20 Years Data Storage Leadership
  ·  Over 1600 Employees Worldwide
  ·  Over 14% of Worldwide External Data Storage is Provided with Xyratex Products/Technology (including OEM      relationships)
  ·  Over 75% of Worldwide 3.5" Disk Drives are Tested with Xyratex Technology
  ·  Industry Unique Array Testing Involving Heat/Cooling/Vibration to reduce DOAs and Provide Industry Leading Reliability
  ·  View Xyratex Compatibility Matrix

StorView™ is Xyratex's premier storage management software for maximizing storage utilization and protection while minimizing IT administration of Xyratex RAID storage.  Providing ease of use management and flexible configuration, StorView enables businesses to increase their overall return on investment by:

  · Improving storage utilization    
  · Minimizing storage management administration
  · Planning for capacity and performance  
  · Easy diagnosis of RAID problems

The Xyratex family of RAID systems scales in performance and functionality from small-to-medium business (SMB) to enterprise class systems. With industry leading performance in IOPS and throughput, Xyratex RAID systems redefine how customers evaluate and acquire data storage. Xyratex storage controllers deliver functionality to midrange storage and server systems previously available only in enterprise class storage arrays. These features include StorView management software, tunable performance as well as support for high speed, reliable Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) disk storage media in the same enclosure for maximum flexibility.  Easy graphical mapping of logical drives to hosts with available SAN LUN Mapping.  

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) to SAS or SATA (Serial ATA) disks

FC (Fibre Channel) Connectivity to SAS or SATA disks

FC  (Fibre Channel) Connectivity to SATA disks

Xyratex EBOD systems combine the performance and scalability of SAS Connectivity with the increased flexibility to support high performance enterprise SAS drives and high capacity low costs SATA drives in the same system.

(Serial Attached SCSI) to SAS or SATA (Serial ATA) disks

      · RS-1220-EBD-E3-EBD
      · RS-1603-EBD-E3-EBD

      · SP-1212S
      · SP-1424S

SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) to SAS

      · SP-1224S

Xyratex integrates the power, flexibility and reliability of Fibre Channel switching into its industry-leading 4Gb Fibre Channel enclosures, supercharging back-end performance to achieve leading edge system operation and design. Xyratex SBOD systems combine the performance and scalability of Fibre Channel connectivity with the increased resiliency of a switch architecture.  Industry leading technology with 4G connectivity makes the  Xyratex RS-1602-F4-SBD SBOD the ideal choice for high performance applications.  This 16 drive, 3U switched enclosure sets the standard for density. 

(Fibre Channel) Connectivity to SATA disks

      · RS-1602-F4-SBD