The two companies announced today the Dell/EMC AX150, a new line of storage devices that replaces and upgrades the AX100.
The AX150 is available with FC or iSCSI connectivity, and can be ordered with dual or single controller. Redundant power supply is now available also in single controller configurations. Both units support RAID levels 5, 0 and 1.
Mounting 500GB SATA drives in its 12 drive slots the AX100 offers a nominal capacity of up to 6 TB in a 2U enclosure.
According to EMC taking advantage of the Native Command Queuing feature of SATA II the AX150 offers significantly better performance than the AX100.
The AX150i, the iSCSI version, has dual iSCSI ports for improved performance and resilience and a new wizard to simplify configuring multiple servers.
Both the FC and iSCSI version of the AX150 support up to 10 hosts and should be available at the same price of similarly configured AX100 models.
Posted by Mario Apicella on April 3, 2006 08:00 AM
