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EonStor DS 1000 Gen2, the entry-level product in Infortrend's traditional main SAN storage product line, has always been favored by the medium-sized storage market, and can surprise users with excellent performance-to-price ratio in various types of projects. Today we combine a typical case to reveal that EonStor DS 1000 Gen2 can perform at the enterprise level when undertaking small and medium-sized businesses.

This is a daily newspaper in a small and medium-sized city. With the trend of new media and digitization becoming more and more obvious, they urgently need to launch their own digital database. In front of them, there are several problems to be solved: first, the previous paper newspaper materials, after digitization into electronic data, need a large capacity of storage. Second, after the establishment of the database, the retrieval system and management system need to run smoothly. In addition, the digital database is also docked with the internal acquisition and editing system, the examination and approval system, the newly revised online website and the brand-new mobile App client. This requires IO's excellent performance and stable storage to meet the daily production of the newspaper as well as daily visits to websites and clients. And storage needs to ensure round-the-clock stable operation, so it must have high availability.

Let's take a look at how EonStor DS 1000 Gen2 excels in these areas. DS 1000 Gen2 has good expansibility. After connecting the expansion cabinet, it can support up to 448 hard drives and the maximum capacity can reach 5PB. It can not only meet the storage requirements of the current electronic database, but also help newspapers to make long-term planning and expansion for the data growth of the database. The IO performance of DS 1000 Gen2 is very good. As we all know, the most remarkable technological advantage of Infortrend is the underlying architecture of independent research and development. The integration of streamlined and efficient firmware and reliable hardware design enables the DS 1000 Gen2 to achieve a throughput of 120,000 IOPS and 5.5GB/s, fully ensuring the operation of multiple systems within the newspaper, as well as daily website access and client push.

In terms of high availability, all Infortrend products are designed with modular hot-swappable redundancy, from power supplies, fans, controllers to motherboards. One part fails and the other takes its place instantly. And the spare parts are plug and play. It does not affect the operation at all. In addition, the DS 1000 Gen2 configures the BBU+ flash module so that the data is never lost in the flash module in the event of a sudden power outage. There is also intelligent media scanning, combined with intelligent hard disk recovery (IDR), to automatically detect and monitor the hard disk, quickly clone the affected data and the soon-to-be-damaged hard disk, and copy the data to the hot spare in advance to prevent RAID reconstruction. With snapshots, mirrors, remote replication and other backup features, DS 1000 Gen2 is fully capable of ensuring the normal operation of the business without downtime and downtime.

Finally, we will talk about the performance-to-price ratio of DS 1000 Gen2. DS 1000 Gen2 supports hybrid flash array configuration. Newspapers can use a large number of low-cost SATA hard drives as the basic configuration of cold data in the database, while high-speed 12Gb/s SAS hard drives are used for data access and access. Allocate resources reasonably and reduce the input of cost. In addition, the power supply adopts 80 PLUS certification, which can effectively reduce energy consumption and reduce expenditure in this area. All in all, users are very satisfied with DS 1000 Gen2. As a unit with a strict cost budget, the DS 1000 Gen2 gives these small and medium-sized users an ideal and appropriate choice between flagship all-flash memory and personal small storage.

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