G-Technology ATTO Technology ExpressSAS R680 RAID Adapter

Description

The ATTO Technology ExpressSAS R680 RAID Adapter from G-Technology is an external RAID Adapter that adds high performance RAID protection to direct attached SAS and SATA JBOD storage. The ExpressSAS R680 gives cost effective and reliable transition from 3 to 6 Gbps SAS/SATA storage infrastructures in general IT, media and entertainment environments. It also gives transition of 6 Gbps SAS/SATA connectivity to Direct Attached Storage via 8 external ports.

With transfer rates of up to 1200 Mbps per port, the ExpressSAS R680 is ideal for workflows such as digital content creation, streaming video and audio, transactional databases, Email and web servers. The RAID stack and exclusive latency management features help you create, share and protect data and digital assets more effectively.

RAID 40, 50, 60 require ATTO Express Power Center software

Key Features

RAID Levels Supported

• ExpressSAS R680 supports RAID levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 40, 50, 60 and DVRAID, an advanced RAID level for digital video environments

Please Note: RAID 40, 50, 60 require ATTO Express Power Center software

Long-Standing RAID Experience

• ExpressSAS R680 features the time-proven ATTO RAID Stack, DVRAID and CacheAssure, proprietary technologies developed to provide the most robust RAID based connectivity solution in the industry.

Flexible Connectivity Solutions

• The ExpressSAS R680 is ideal for a wide variety of IT and digital media environments that require high-performance and parity RAID protected data. ExpressSAS R680 offers driver support for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X, that provides a single connectivity solution for customers with heterogeneous operating system environments.

Performance Engineered

• The ExpressSAS R680 allows users to instantly protect their critical data to enhance performance. ExpressSAS R680 is designed to maintain full performance in degraded mode and to minimize downtime with 50% faster rebuilds, limiting exposure to a second drive failure.

Advanced Management Tools

• The ExpressSAS R680 Adapter's easy-to-use configuration tool features an intuitive GUI that simplifies RAID group configuration, management and monitoring. It also offers the most advanced performance tuning capabilities and troubleshooting utilities, providing users with sophisticated diagnostics and the flexibility to control settings for specific applications.

Advanced Data Streaming Technology

• Latency management technology that controls the acceleration of data transfers to move large amounts of data faster and more efficiently.

DriveAssure Technology

• Drive assessment and latency management technology that prevents premature drive failures to ensure uninterrupted access to data.

CacheAssure Technology

• NV cache data protection module provides a maintenance free solution that safeguards against the loss of cached data during a power or system failure.

Data Recovery Mode

• Mechanism that increases the probability of fully or partially recovering data that is lost due to a disk failure and offline RAID group.

User Benefits

• High performance host-based RAID for direct attached storage
• Four port configurations for flexible connectivity
• Full performance in degraded or rebuild mode
• Flash-based cache protection protects against lost data during power or system failure
• More options for retrieving data from a failed drive with data recovery mode
• 50% faster rebuilds
• Efficient scalability with host level RAID
• Maintain high priority workflows with tunable rebuilds
• RAID group partitioning for better management

Management Tools

• User-friendly GUI for quick and easy RAID setup
• Command line interface for advanced functionality
• ATTO config tool: BIOS-based RAID management and configuration utility

Specifications