Bell Microproducts, Inc. announced today two new products for the SME, the Hammer Z-rack HZR1U, a 1U rack mountable device, and the Hammer Z-box HZD4B a desktop unit.
Both products are based on Z-SAN by Zetera, and offer the typical features of that technology including unified files and blocks serving, spanning LUNs across units and concurrent LUN access from multiple servers.
Each unit can mount up to 4 SATA drives, supports RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1 and 10, and connects to a LAN via 1 GbE port.
A single device can host 2TB of disk space and has a transfer rate of up to 80Mbps. However, according to Hammer Storage aggregating multiple devices gives the solution much larger capacity and much faster performance, limited only by external factors such as the target OS or the LAN bandwidth.
Both units can serve storage to Windows 2000, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 hosts, with Redhat Linux to follow by the end of April.
The two products should be available starting mid-April at a price of $1,300 for a 1TB Z-box and $4,000 for a 1TB Z-rack.
Posted by Mario Apicella on March 27, 2006 12:43 AM
