S2A9900

Extreme Storage for Extreme Performance

Recipient of multiple awards, including Frost & Sullivan's Digital Media Storage Innovation of the Year and HPCWire's Best Product and Technology of the Year, the S2A9900 is the pinnacle of DDN S2A technology and is designed to thrive in throughput-intensive environments, with scalable capacity unrivaled in the industry.

Developed over a decade of global deployments, our Silicon Storage Architecture, S2A, is a purpose-built architecture utilizing custom FPGAs with extreme levels of intelligence, designed to solve the data infrastructure problems that others simply can't. The S2A9900 is a purpose-built data infrastructure platform encompassing the S2A state machine architecture and advanced software that is specifically optimized for throughput-intensive applications, enabling clients to seamlessly adapt to the transition to all-digital content, manage the unmitigated explosion of unstructured data and deploy a centralized Cloud Computing architecture.

The S2A9900 enables clients to run multiple applications simultaneously in parallel, whereas competitors force clients to run applications sequentially, costing more time, more money, and more management personnel. The S2A9900 is a technically elegant data infrastructure platform that cost- effectively provides extreme performance and capacity, managing 2.4PB in only two floor tiles and delivering sustained, real-time throughput per appliance of up to 6 GB/s for both writes and reads. This S2A platform provides the performance and capacity headroom to scale as bandwidth and files continue to grow while providing real-time data integrity checking, error correction and intelligent drive failure recovery without degrading performance.

Proven for extreme scalability over 8 generations, the S2A9900 is the standard in the world's largest, most content-intensive environments. Today, DDN's most extreme user relies on the S2A9900 to power the largest and fastest file system in the world, delivering over 240GB/s of consistent bandwidth across 11 petabytes of scalable capacity.

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Innovation

  • Real-time, state machine parallel architecture with separate data and control paths for real-time streaming
  • Writes data as fast as it reads it
  • Scales to 240GB/s and beyond in a cluster formation
  • Offers 6 GB/s of host throughput and 24 GB/s of back-end bandwidth
  • Supports up to 4 4K video streams and 2 2K uncompressed video streams concurrently from a single platform
  • Supports over 30 Apple Final Cut Pro workstations running uncompressed HD video--from a single platform
  • Industry's Only Intermix of SSD, SAS and SATA in the same disk enclosure
  • Native FC-4, FC-8, GigE, 10GigE and/or Infiniband DDR
  • ZERO Degraded Mode for: writes, drive rebuilds, data integrity validation, RAID 6 parity, full capacity operation
  • SATAssure real-time drive error detection and correction
  • D-MAID variable power saving disk drive spin-down
  • Self Healing: Transparent drive diagnostic and repair with individual power cycling
  • Flexible and open to integrate with the best available parallel and clustered file systems

Capacity

  • Scales beyond 240GB/s
  • Single system manages up to 1,200 drives in 2 racks
  • Ultra dense drive enclosures: 120TB in 4U, 2.4PB in 2 racks (SATA)
  • Proven scalability to dozens of petabytes
  • Multiple systems scale to dozens of petabytes

Performance

  • 6GB/s reads AND writes
  • Real-time, ZERO-latency data access
  • Parallel processing
  • High performance DirectRAID 6

Features

  • Industry-leading performance & capacity
  • Industry-leading density
  • Largest scalable storage building block
  • Open standards
  • Always at full speed; Zero Degraded Mode
  • SATAssure
  • D-MAID variable power down
  • High performance DirectRAID 6
  • Single system multi-tiered storage

Benefits

  • Lower capital and operational expense with fewer systems to purchase and manage
  • Reclaim valuable floor space, reduce power and cooling costs
  • Reduce management cost, complexity and risk
  • Provide flexibility, no vendor lock-in for file systems
  • Guaranteed QoS and fewer systems needed to sustain SLAs
  • Reduce cost with SATA and gain enterprise-class data protection and reliability
  • Save power and cooling expenses while preserving rapid access to archived data
  • Double data protection without compromising any performance
  • Reduce cost and management complexity

How to Buy

S2A Extreme Storage Systems are available through a variety of channels:

Direct

DDN's Worldwide Presales Team of Account Managers and Systems Engineers will assess your business objectives and technical requirements and prescribe the right size storage to fit your needs and budget.

OEM System Providers

The world's largest technology companies provide S2A Extreme Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Resellers and Integrators

Specialized VARs and System Integrators provide S2A Extreme Storage as individual systems or as part of a larger integrated solution.

Contact sales@ddn.com and we will work with you to understand your needs and determine the best source.

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