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Press Release Feb 24, 2011
Aberdeen Announces New AberNAS LX Series 64bit Linux NAS, Available with Hitachi High-Performance 3TB Drives
Features Up to 198TB of Native Storage Capacity, Powered by Intel Xeon Processors
Santa Fe Springs, California, February 24,
2011: Aberdeen LLC, a leading manufacturer of server and storage
solutions, announced today the availability of the new
AberNAS LX Series
storage appliance featuring a 64bit Linux-based OS. The Linux-based OS
offers ongoing and broad-based support from the worldwide Linux open
source community, combined with enterprise-class NAS storage capacity
and the flexibility of iSCSI target capability.
Aberdeen’s current lines of NAS (AberNAS)/SAN (AberSAN) and custom
(Stirling) servers are designed to support Hitachi’s 3TB Ultrastar
7K3000 drive family – the world’s first 7,200 RPM drive family rated at
2.0 million hours MTBF, providing improved uptime and lowered TCO.
Aberdeen is rolling out support for the 3TB drives and will begin
shipping these storage dense servers and storage appliances in late Q1.
The new 8u NAS appliance server provides the largest amount of pure
storage capacity in a single rackmount server to date (up to 198TB
utilizing 3TB drives). Utilizing a dual-sided chassis, the unit features
48 front and 18 rear HDD bays for superior storage density. It also
includes three external SAS ports for JBOD expansion and two SAS 6G HBA
ports for XDAS (direct-attached-storage) expansion.
“Our new 64bit Linux-based AberNAS storage server provides unmatched
versatility, flexibility and dependability to meet the needs of even the
most demanding IT manager,” said Moshe Ovadya, president and chief
executive officer of Aberdeen LLC. “Many existing Aberdeen customers
have already shown interest in this new server and we’re confident the
Linux-based OS will make it the server of choice for an increasing
variety of applications.”
This new NAS appliance is designed to grow as a company’s storage needs
increase. It is ideal for rapidly-growing organizations that require
continuous expansion of their storage capacity. The AberNAS LX Series is
designed to securely store and transfer very large files in real time.
The Linux-based NAS appliance eliminates the 16TB single array volume
size limitation and can include as much as 8EB of storage in a single
virtual array. The AberNAS LX Series comes standard with 6GB ECC DDR3
memory and can support up to a maximum of 192GB. The Aberdeen AberNAS LX
utilizes the latest Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor 5600 series
microprocessors, formerly code named Westmere. The new, low power Xeon
processors help to deliver the lowest power consuming servers in the
marketplace while providing the flexibility to virtualize different
generations of Xeon server processors within the same pool.
The new 64bit Linux NAS appliance features an intuitive Web GUI with
drop-down menus. With menus located both at the top and on the lower
right, IT managers always have easy access for managing functionality.
Web administration can occur via http or https only, or it can be
disabled. The AberNAS LX Series provides added NAS-to-NAS replication
features and volume snapshot support.
An all-in-one NAS plus iSCSI storage server, the new 64bit Linux NAS
version of the AberNAS LX Series uses RAID optimized SATA 3Gb/s drives,
providing RAID 0, 1, 5 or 6 storage arrays. Its SAS expansion port
facilitates connection to several Aberdeen XDAS devices, enabling
significant storage expansion.
The improved LX Series supports SCSI-3 persistent reservation, required
by advanced clustering applications, such as Microsoft Windows 2008
Server Clustering and Veritas Advance Cluster. It supports
write-back/write-through cache policy for the iSCSI target volume. Just
as with its predecessor, the 64bit AberNAS LX Series will be VMware
certified as NFS and iSCSI storage in Q2 of 2011.
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Pricing:
Pricing for entry level (1u)
storage appliance models begin at $2,795 and $4,795 with Hitachi’s new
3TB drives. Midrange (5u)
models start at $10,995 and $20,495 with 3TB drives and enterprise (8u)
models start at $23,995 and $50,995 with 3TB drives.
Availability and Support:
The AberNAS LX Series featuring its 64bit Linux-based OS is currently
shipping with worldwide availability and can be custom configured with
SAS or SSD drives to meet even the most stringent requirements. This and
other Aberdeen storage and server solutions are available via the
Aberdeen Website (www.aberdeeninc.com)
or by contacting an Aberdeen account executive at (800) 552-6868 or +1
(562) 903-1500 from outside the United States. All Aberdeen products
feature an industry-leading 5-year limited warranty as well as a free
30-day trial assessment program with all of its branded servers.
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Media Contacts:
Trenton R. Baker
Marketing Manager
Aberdeen LLC
562-903-1500 x153
trentonb@aberdeeninc.com
Jack Tateel
Executive
Vice President
Aberdeen LLC
562-903-1500 x157
jackt@aberdeeninc.com
About Aberdeen:
Aberdeen LLC is a leading manufacturer of servers and
storage. Delivering exceptional performance, unparalleled reliability
and outstanding value, Aberdeen’s award winning products are deployed
every day by IT departments in many of the world’s largest
organizations. More information about Aberdeen is available at
www.aberdeeninc.com.
Day to day announcements from Aberdeen
can be found on Twitter: @aberdeenllc.
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