Uber-server component manufacturer Supermicro has made available its latest SAS chassis, featuring SES2.
Here in the UK, the Serial Attached SCSI servers will be available from system integrator Armari. As SAS grows in popularity as an appealing means of expanding storage within a company, new features are added, the latest being SES2 enclosures. SCSI Enclosure Services alert users to anything that may be going wrong with the SAS box, including fan failure, temperature rises or drive trouble, via an audible alarm and the venerable LED.
When you have up to 128 disks in your SAS system automated monitoring and feedback on their status is nothing less than essential. The first product from SuperMicro featuring the technology is the 6014P-32R. Armari's Dan Goldsmith made the following comments:
The feature-rich 6014P-32R is just one of numerous solutions we have available optimized for both SE2 SAS drives and Intel Dual-Core processors. With an extremely comprehensive range of high performance SAS/SATA enabled motherboards, Superservers, and mobile hard disk drive enclosures. Supermicro’s exceptional attention to optimized SES2 Chassis and cooling designs reaffirms Supermicro’s stance as the markets leading edge partner of choice within the server, workstation and storage arena
It's got dual core support, 3Gbps for SAS drives, PCI-X-133 and 8xPCIe connectivity and can take up to 16GB of RAM, all in a 1U chassis. For more details, check out Supermicro's press release.
