Storage Area Network Solutions

"The AberSAN i100 is a high-end, technologically advanced device
 ... and an excellent choice"
- CRN, 2005.

ADVANTAGE - The Aberdeen AberSAN i100 solution features a flexible framework for a highly scalable SAN environment by utilizing the iSCSI protocol. The i100 is designed with PCI Express and Extended Memory 64 Technology (EM64T) and the Intel® Xeon™ processors, DDR2 400MHz ECC memory, dual gigabit NICs, and with dual OS drives to allow for RAID 1 disk mirroring providing system failover and the best fault-tolerance in a multi-user system. The impressive feature to the 1U AberSAN iSCSI storage server gateway is the ability to be coupled with Aberdeen XDAS RAID storage subsystems that deliver up to 18TB per box. The key advantage to the XDAS is it takes advantage of disk-to-disk SATA storage via either SCSI cabling or Fibre channel cabling and can be daisy-chained to provide larger storage capacities.

Aberdeen developed the AberSAN-FC Starter Kit to provide a cost-effective straight-forward package to implement a Fibre Channel (FC) Storage Area Network (SAN). The AberSAN-FC Starter Kit delivers enterprise-quality storage in a simple ready to implement package. 

The AberSAN i300 is an equally impressive iSCSI SAN solution providing 2TB of storage in a 3U chassis starting under $10,000. Currently shipping and similarly configured as the i100, the i300 is designed as a turnkey stand alone iSCSI storage SAN solution that also utilizes the scalable advantage of the XDAS and can ultimately be expand to 1PB (Petabyte) of total storage capacity. The AberSAN by Aberdeen clearly exceeds any IT manager's storage expectations.

"The most impressive feature of the 1U AberSAN iSCSI storage server gateway is the option to couple the device with a 2-Tbyte, 3-Tbyte or 4-Tbyte Aberdeen XDAS RAID storage box." - CRN, January 10, 2005.
Read the full review here.

The highly scalable XDAS offers a flexible framework for building and managing cost-effective SATA RAID storage solutions. The scalable XDAS subsystems can provide from 2TB in a standard 2U up to 18 terabytes in a 4Uand up to 6.4TB in a 3U format.  Bundled with either an Aberdeen Stirling server or AberSAN  iSCSI solution or included in the AberSAN-FC Starter Kit a pure Fibre Channel SAN solution, the XDAS scalable DAS delivers a storage capacity with the ability to add 3 XDAS units per SCSI port and up to 7 XDAS units per Fibre port. Daisy-chaining a with an Aberdeen XDAS subsystem can easily result in storage capacities in excess of (1PB) 1 petabyte.