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Firefly |
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Product Description:
The FireFly, our new line of Digital Virtual Libraries, combines high capacity, high performance and low cost into a single storage system. The FireFly uses the latest Serial-ATA technology to provide Fast Random Access data storage when coupled with the FireFly's advanced silicon switching technology. This provides the Highest Density storage in the Industry. Subsystems range from 12TB to 48TB with transfer rates of up to 400MB sustained.
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Serial ATA Drives |
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Designed to replace the hardware of today's parallel ATA Interface, Serial ATA improves performance to keep pace with increasing data intensive environments. |
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Back Plain Switch |
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Each data channel bursts 150MB/s and aggregate speeds can reach astonishing 400MB/s. Multi-cabinet configurations have a capability of transferring data at multi-gigabyte speeds. The first fully electronic non-robotic data library, the FireFly was designed with an electronically switched data path, eliminating the need for robotics, and providing greatly improved data access and reliability. Drives and RAID sets are switched off and on between the four banks of drives in the FireFly.
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Predictive Failure Analysis |
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The FireFly manages the reliability of data based on Predictive Failure Analysis of physical disk by monitoring the Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology or "S.M.A.R.T." status of the drive over time. The FireFly will take a drive that is suspect and write it's data to a spare drive dedicated to S.M.A.R.T., taking the suspect drive off line while remapping the spare drive to the RAID set it replaced. When a new drive is inserted to replace the bad drive, the reverse process is done and the spare drive added back to the spare pool. The analysis reports the following:
- Head flying height
- Number of remapped sectors
- ECC use and error counts
- Sin-uptime
- Temperature
- Data throughput
- Idle Time Error Checking
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Power Management |
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High-end storage products can consume 14 kilowatts per hour. A "greener" solution, the FireFly requires about the same amount of electricity as eight 120W light bulbs for an equivalent amount of storage. This advanced power management technique can save companies thousands of dollars in utility charges. Power Management powers drives off during idle time. Drives "spin-up" on first I/O request, while drives go idle and "spin down" after I/O timeout. |
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Compatibility |
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The FireFly DM-Series Virtual Libraries are compatible with all leading networked operating environments. CUC integrates software that makes it fast, easy and seamless to integrate the FireFly into Windows 2000, Unix and Macintosh platforms.
Most near-line solutions today are slow, making them impractical for many high-speed applications such as video and data files. Unheard of in the near-line industry, the FireFly delivers as many as 48 concurrent strings of data per library, at unprecedented 400MB/s. The FireFly is truly the next generation near-line solution with the level of performance and scalability required for High Data Broadcast, Medical Imaging, Financial, Oil and Gas yet economical enough for mid size organizations.
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Advantages |
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The FireFly is rooted in stable, industry-standard, cross-platform compliant hard disk drives. The same basic technology every computer user has relied on for nearly three decades. By incorporating SATA HDD into the FireFly, the user's long-term storage investment is preserved. Capacities grow with higher capacity SATA drives and can be mixed in the library in the future.
The advantages offered by FireFly in networked storage environments include: scalability, economy and performance. A point-to-point connection, SATA allows multiple drive ports to be aggregated into a single controller, meaning capacity hungry applications and environments can quickly and easily respond to their changing storage requirements not only giving organizations greater control over scalability, but over cost by just adding additional drives with higher capacity.
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Capacities and Configurations |
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DM50- Maximum capacity 12TB with (48) 250GB SATA drives, Dimensions 30.3" H x 19.7" W x 30.7" D. Weight 662 lbs.
DM100- Maximum capacity 24TB with (96) 250GB SATA drives, Dimensions 44.5" H x 19.7" W x 30.7" D. Weight 882 lbs
DM200- Maximum capacity 48TB with (192) 250GB SATA drives, Dimensions 72.8" H x 19.7" W x 30.7" D. Weight 1103 lbs
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Operating Environment |
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Operating Temperature: 5C-35C
Thermal Gradient: Maximum 10C/hr
Humidity: 20-80 %RH
Wet Bulb: 30C max
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Power |
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Voltage: 90-264 V AC
Frequency: 47-63 Hz
Power Consumption: 15A / 7.5A (100 / 240 V) 1800 VA maximum
Inrush Current: > 140 A / 280 A (115 / 230 V 25C)
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