With an eye on enterprise features at a price that even a small to medium businesses can afford, the Rorke Data’s 3G series fundamentally changes storage economics from purchase and set up to operation and upgrades. The flexibility to use Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) drives and the open architecture of the Galaxy 3G series lets businesses use the components that are best suited to their application needs. All of the systems in the 3G series also share the same firmware for ease of qualification and Rorke Data’s Web-based, centralized GUI for comprehensive data management. Rorke Data stands behind all of its Galaxy products with options for 24x7 technical support, enhanced warranty programs and an advanced replacement program.

• Supports 1TB hard drives
• Supports failover/failback RAID controllers for high availability
• 12 hot-swappable drive bays in a robust 2U chassis
• Flexibility to use SAS and SATA 3Gb/s drives simultaneously
• Four 3Gb/s SAS x4 host ports for performance and connectivity
• Data protection with RAID 0/ 1/ 1E / 10/ 5/ 6 / 50 /60 with multiple global or dedicated hot-spare drives support
• 3G JBOD expansion – up to 4 Galaxy 3G JBOD systems
• Redundant, hot-swappable power and cooling modules
• Embedded web-based management GUI via Ethernet and Command Line Interface/Utility via RJ-11 Serial Port
• LUN Mapping and Masking enable SANs and large clusters configurations
• Expandable up to 4 JBODS

Intelligent Design Delivers Scalability and Upgradeability
Four 3Gb SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) x4 host interface ports per controller provide highly reliable, high-performance, price-conscious primary storage solution for first deployments as well as customers upgrading from a traditional Ultra SCSI 320 storage solution. Choose the 3G series system that fits your requirements today with the confidence that you have the flexibility to change the host interface simply by changing the controllers and also increase your available storage by adding 3G JBOD systems and scale to meet your future needs. In addition, one of the key advantages of the SAS technology implemented in the Galaxy 3G series is the ability to connect either SAS or SATA drives with the same interface. This simplifies data management by allowing businesses to easily expand SAS storage as their critical business transactions increase and migrate less-accessed data to SATA storage. Sharing most common FRUs between products also eliminates spare parts SKUs and simplifies field replacement. In addition, with the Galaxy 3G series there are four SAS ports that will allow you to connect or cascade multiple 3G series units without the added cost of a SAS switch

Dual 4Gb Fibre Channel (FC) host interface ports per controller provide connectivity into widely deployed Fibre Channel storage networks, perfect for supplementing existing storage networks and for building new application storage systems. Choose the 3G series system that fits your requirements today with the confidence that you have the flexibility to change the host interface simply by changing the controllers and also increase your available storage by adding JBOD systems and scale to meet your future needs. In addition, one of the key advantages of the SAS technology implemented in the Galaxy 3G series is the ability to connect either SAS or SATA drives with the same interface. This simplifies data management by allowing businesses to easily expand SAS storage as their critical business transactions increase and migrate less-accessed data to SATA storage. Sharing most common FRUs between products also eliminates spare parts SKUs and simplifies field replacement.

No Single Point of Failure
With the Galaxy 3G series Rorke Data’s has dramatically narrowed the gap between simple fault tolerance and No Single Point of Failure. The 3G series incorporates an intelligent, enterprise-level, cable-less system design which includes fully redundant, hot-swappable controllers, power and cooling units, which are all field replaceable. All system components are constantly monitored to ensure continuous operation in case of disk failure or a controller, power supply, or cooling unit malfunction. Dual active-active, failover/failback RAID controllers provide redundant data paths to further help ensure availability.

Comprehensive Data Management
The Galaxy 3G series features embedded management software that eliminates the need to install additional software on the network. All Galaxy systems in your network can be configured and monitored through a single, easy-to-manage web-based graphic user interface. The software works through the Galaxy system’s Ethernet port – locally, across a LAN, or across an internet connection – to configure and monitor one or multiple Galaxy system(s) and provide error reporting through pop-up messages, event logging, or email notification. In the event of a controller failure, Rorke Data’s management software will also seamlesslessly failover and failback. The Galaxy family also simplifies integration with thirdparty management applications using industry-standard SNMP and CIM protocols.