• 12 of 16 bay rack mount enclosure
• Capacities to 32TB
• Dual 4G FC host connection
• Hardware acceleration for outstanding RAID 6 & 6 performance
• Support for latest SAS and SATA II drives
• Flexibility to use SAS & SATA-II drives in same enclosure
• Support for RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 6 and JBOD
• Adaptive cooling
• Powerful 560W redundant PSU’s
• Hot-swap SmartLCD panel (16 bay only)
• Sophisticated configuration and monitoring
• Caddies support 10K & 15K RPM hard drives
• Multi-lane SAS expansion via JBOD enclosures allowing support for up to 128 HDDs
• Supports Xsan 2 and Final Cut Studio 2
• 2GB cache as standard for improved performance

The 12 or 16 bay E4 RAID system combines dual 4Gbit host connection, with high performance SAS and SATA-II drives. With the flexibility to combine SAS and SATA-II drives in a single enclosure, plus a multi-lane SAS connector for expandability, the E4 takes performance, reliability and scalability to a new high. Users can expand the storage capacity by adding additional 12 or 16-bay JBOD systems to a single E4 master box offering up to 256 TeraByte of storage in a fully loaded system.

The powerful E4 RAID engine utilises the new Intel Xscale IOP341 processor providing true hardware acceleration, with improved performance in RAID 5 and 6. In addition, E4 comes with a huge 2GB of cache as standard, offering exceptional performance in Data Streaming and also increases the cache hits in Random environments.

E4 supports MAID, making it one of the few products on the market that takes a stand against harmful greenhouse gases/CO2 emissions. In a RAID system, peak power consumption occurs when the drives are spinning - yet most RAID systems are only used from 09.00 to 17.00, 5 days a week and remain idle for the rest of the time. However, the E4 system detects any idle time and simply spins down the drives so they don't consume electricity until they are in use again. This process is totally automatic and occurs without any loss of connection between the Server and the E4 system. The E4 RAID controller also continues to respond in a completely normal way.

Fibrenetix E-series intelligent cooling system also adapts to the environment. If there is a limited need for cooling, the fans automatically run with a lower speed and thereby use less electricity.  Fibrenetix E4 is a formidable system.