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Adaptec FS4500 RAID
The Adaptec FS4500 Fibre to SATA RAID addresses the high growth, midrange storage market, combining cost-effective SATA technology with Fibre Channel RAID performance and reliability in SAN and DAS configurations. It is ideal for reference data and fixed content applications where data availability, throughput and constant access to storage resources are critical. The FS4500 is highly flexible and configurable to adapt to evolving storage requirements with flexible configurations.
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Microsoft

Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows NT
Microsoft Windows Server 2003

Red Hat Linux

Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3

Supported Operating Systems
Microsoft Windows NT 4.0
Microsoft Windows 2000
Microsoft Windows Server 2003
Red Hat Linux AS 3.0
Benefits
  No single point of failure with redundant, hot-swappable components and a passive midplane. RAID controllers mask the drives’ SATA characteristics, presenting them to the host as high performance FC devices.
Key Differentiators
  Combined performance and connectivity benefits of Fibre Channel with the cost advantages of SATA drives. Passive, 3Gbit-ready, midplane.
Customer Needs
  Cost-effective, performance, and flexibility for the midrange storage market
System Environment
  Spheras RAIDWatch management GUI supported under Windows, Linux. OS Independent via serial port management
Capacity
  Up to a maximum of 12 drives (4.8 TB) capacity per 2U enclosure with a total maximum of 96 drives (34.8 TB) capacity per subsystem
Network or Host Interface
  • One or two Fibre Channel controllers; each controller supports dual optical or copper (SFP) connections, 200 MB/s each (400 MB/s total)
  • Serial (RS232) port, Ethernet port, copper or optical (SFP) expansion port
Data Transfer Rate
Dual controllers: Up to 385 MB/s (sustained reads), 48,000 I/Os (cached reads)
Package Contents
  • Storage enclosure with either one or two controllers
  • Quick Install Guide
  • CD containing management software and user documentation
  • (Disk drives sold separately)
Warranty
3-year warranty on subsystems (3 year warranty on SATA disk drives)

Disk drive interface

Independent 150 MB/s point-to-point connections to each SATA disk drive with dual port access to each drive and failover by each controller to each drive.

Measured performance
(dual controllers, RAID 5)

Up to 385 MB/s (sustained reads) 48,000 I/Os (cached reads)

RAID controller specifications

  • PowerPC 750 667 MHz RISC Processor
  • Hardware XOR
  • Up to 1 GB memory per controller
  • 4 MB flash memory
  • ECC Memory Support

Controller features

  • Dual active with automatic, transparent failover/failback
  • Auto-negotiate speeds
  • In-band and out-of-band management
  • Replacement controller reflashes FW to match peer controller
  • Selective LUN deletion
  • LUN Masking
  • F_port and FL_port support
  • Cache coherency
  • Battery protected mirrored write cache
  • Write through, write back, or read-ahead cache support per logical drive
  • Variable cache line size and stripe size
  • Dedicated controller-to-controller communication path
  • Background disk scrubbing and data integrity checking
  • Concurrent RAID Level support — 0-5, 10, 30, 50
  • Each logical drive can have an independent RAID level
  • On-line RAID Group expansion/partitioning
  • Up to 32 MB I/O request sizes
  • Global hot spare drives assign a spare to a specified LUN
  • Write through/back configurability per LUN
  • Write through performance optimization

Redundant, hot–swappable components

  • Up to 2 RAID controllers
  • Two independent AC power inlets
  • Two advanced pwer and cooling modules (APC)
  • Enclosure services module (hot-swappable, not redundant)
  • Up to 12 drives
  • No active components on data path

Maximum cable lengths

Optical: Up to 25 meters
Copper: Up to 6 meters

Pedestal cabinet dimensions

19.5in H x 4.6in W x 21.5in D (49.53cm H x 11.7cm W x 54.6cm D) Weight with drives: 60 lbs (27 kg) max

Rackmount enclosure dimensions

3.5in H x 17.6in W x 19.5in D (8.9cm H x 44.7cm W x 49.53cm D) Weight with drives: 60 lbs (27 kg) max

Monitoring

Temperature, advanced power and cooling modules including fan speed control, disk drives, and I/O module(s)

Failure notification

SCSI enclosure services (SES) over I2C physical interface, LEDs, audible alarms, FRU (field replaceable unit) revision and serial number reporting, events reported to Adaptec RAIDWatch software

Disk Drives

400GB 7200 rpm SATA
250GB 7200 rpm SATA

AC Power

Input voltage: Autoranging, 85-264 VAC
Input frequency: 47-63 Hz
Power factor correction: Per EN61000-3-2
Input current: 100-240 VAC @ 4-2.5 A
Output power: 491 W peak, 430 W average

Operating temperature

0° to 40° C

Temperature gradient

20° C per hour

Relative humidity

5 to 95 percent (non-condensing)

Altitude

-200 to 10,000 feet

Shock tolerance

5G @ 11ms, 1/2 sine wave pulse

Vibration tolerance

0.2G @ 5Hz to 350 Hz

Electromagnetic emissions standards

CE Mark, EN55022 Class A, EN61000 Class A, FCC Class A, Canadian DOC Class A, VCCI Class A

Safety standards

UL 1950, CSA 22.2-950, EN 60950

Quality standards

Manufactured under an ISO 9002 registered quality system
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