Dell will announce today the PowerVault MD1000, a new 3U JBOD (just a bunch of disks) box that mounts up to 15 3.5" SAS (serial attached SCSI) drives.
The MD1000 can be equipped with fast performing 15K RPM drives in 36GB, 73GB and 146GB capacity, or with less expensive 10K RPM devices with 146 GB and 300GB capacity.
The enclosure attaches to Dell servers via SAS and can be set to any RAID configuration supported by the server controller.
According to Dell, further capacity can be added by daisy-chaining up to three enclosures with SAS connections.
The PowerVault MD1000 is available immediately. Price with just two drives starts at $4200.
Posted by Mario Apicella on May 9, 2006 06:00 AM
