N-TEC ICEBOX / ICECube

IT administrators with the ICEBOX a RAID system that can grow perfectly with the growing capacity needs in the company. The entire assembly provides high-technology "Made in Germany" who knows the professional users quickly come to appreciate.

 

The ICEBOX lends itself to use in the Small Business and midrange environments. Thanks supported S-ATA II technology to move the investments later development within a manageable budget.

 

The ICEBOX has slots for up to 16 SAS or S-ATA II hard drives. The drives also operate even in mixed mode, eg SAS hard drives for database applications and SATA II hard drives for nearline storage "applications in one box. The array supports RAID levels 0, 1, 0 +1, 3, 5, 30, 50.60, and 6, which is the failure of multiple (up to two) hard drives possible. As a RAID controller, the S-Series S-ATA II controller comes with an onboard memory of 512 MB, based on Intel ® XScale ® is used.

The RAID system provides, when configured with 16 HDDs à 1,0 TB (striped), a maximum gross capacity of 16 TB. Depending on requirements, the administrator can tune the system to speed or - in the form of redundancy - optimize towards security. 

  

Hard extensions can be either in the existing RAID configuration, or integrated as a new network drive in parallel add. The hard disk drives are hot-swappable and can be dynamically without interrupting operations and expand online and exchange. A peculiarity of the ICEBOX is the support of snapshot-on-the-box, regardless of the operating system or server. 

  

For system integration, two SCSI interfaces are available. Alternatively, there is the ICEBOX with Dual Loop FC 4 Gb interface. In this configuration allows the ICEBOX as arbitrated loop or switched fabric device operating in a SAN. 

  

As a further variant, the ICEBOX is also offered as an iSCSI solution, or with 2 x SAS host connections. Hard drives, fans, power supply and temperature are continuously monitored and resolved in an appropriate incident reports. The administration can be transferred via RS232 or via a Web browser. 

  

With the Web browser configurations may be used to transfer the error messages via SNMP or SMTP as the e-mail or SMS messages are created. For WINTEL clients can receive information via pop-up window. 

  

The monitoring of the system is independent of host and operating system, which allows running the ICEBOX in heterogeneous networks. The ICEBOX no driver or software components must be installed. 

  

IceCube is quiet and can be used mobile and flexible due to the compact size. IceCube is either as U320 SCSI / S-ATAII RAID solution available and can be used as direct-attached storage system (DAS), or alternatively be used with Gb / s-ATAII as an iSCSI target (SAN) storage.