B12F-G1430

Introducing 2.5-inch Small Form Factor Disk Drives:

Higher Reliability and Better Performance:

2.5-inch disk drives are designed for environment requiring higher reliability and higher I/O density. The benefits of 2.5" disk drives are obvious:

• 70% smaller: Think about the estimated $1000 cost per square foot in an average data center. Now you can install 2.5 times of hard drives in the same data center footprint.
• Consumes 40% less power: In addition to cost reduction, less power means a cooler enclosure, and therefore a higher overall reliability.
• Higher MTBF: High-end 15,000RPM 2.5-inch SAS drives feature a 1.6 million hour MTBF, which is 15 percent higher than the 1.4 million hour by 3.5-inch disk drives.

2.5-inch Drives Are Simply Smaller:

Infortrend is the first to introduce 2.5" disk drives in external RAID enclosures. Using 2.5" drives allow you to implement more spindles in less than half of rackmount space than using the 3.5" counterparts. More spindles mean higher IOPS performance.

Lower Total Cost of Ownership:

Compact in Size:

SFF 2.5-inch disk drives are simply smaller than their 3.5-inch counterparts. That means more disk drives can be integrated in the disk array enclosures. For example, an Infortrend’s B12S/B12F 1U enclosure houses 12 2.5-inch disk drives while the same number of 3.5-inch disk drives requires a 2U-profile enclosure. This density edge dramatically improves space utilization efficiency.

Power Consumption and Heat Generation:

SFF 2.5-inch disk drives consume 45% less power than their 3.5-inch counterparts. They run cooler with reduced airflow requirements, which also decrease the chance of encountering thermal issues and the cost on providing airflow ventilation.

Shock Tolerance:

Shorter and stiffer actuator, smaller discs, and a compact motor increase its tolerance to shock and vibration, and hence the disk array can operate with higher reliability.

Less Vibration When Spinning:

Spinning multiple drives in a RAID enclosure can introduce interference from the seek acceleration by one drive seeking data to another that is writing. The transmitted vibration can cause retries and hence the overall array performance can be affected. In a high-transaction rate and random-access environment with intensive seek operations, the potential performance loss can be mended by 2.5-inch disk drives. 2.5-inch drives do not generate sufficient vibration during seeks to degrade the overall performance.

Full-featured RAID in a Compact 1U Chassis:

The B12F RAID enclosure is designed with all the sophisticated high availability features including redundant RAID controllers, a passive backplane, cross-controller 'sync. cache' channels, redundant cooling and power supply modules. Highest performance and spindle density is achieved within the compact design which previously requires 2U or more rack space.

Thanks to the low vibration and reduced airflow requirements of 2.5-inch drives, the B12F runs with higher reliability. As a reminder, the B12F does not compromise on its advanced RAID functionality because of its compact size. The B12F supports RAID levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, multi-level logical volumes, and all the renowned firmware functionality as other EonStor series models.

Software Features:

EonPath: The EonPath drivers coordinates with Microsoft MPIO, runs on Solaris and Linux platforms, and provides fault tolerance for multiple data paths and load-balancing algorithms. The EonPath also enables TPGS (Target Port Group Service) for optimizing I/Os through the optimal paths.

SANWatch: SANWatch provides all functions necessary to discover, configure, administer, and monitor Infortrend's RAID arrays; be they remote or many. The SANWatch also provides management interfaces for EonPath and Snapshot functions, so that all data protection and high availability features can be accessed through one interface.

Scalability: Expansion over SAS Wide Links:

Similar to Fibre Channel expansion loops, SAS expander technologies also enable the ease of connections when the need arises for more capacity. All you have to do is to attach the cables and use a flatblade screwdriver to select an enclosure ID by a rotary switch. The SAS WWN addresses will be automatically applied to all the disk drives.

A single-controller RAID can attach to 4 expansion enclosures (60 HDD) via SAS wide links.

A redundant-controller RAID can attach to 3 expansion enclosures. Although the maximum no. of disk drives is reduced to 48, yet fault-tolerant links can be strung between RAID and JBOD enclosures.

Flexible Tiered Storage with Small and Large Form Factor SAS and SATA Drives

The B12F grants users the flexibility to intermix SAS and SATA drives in RAID and the B12S-J1000 1U expansion enclosures for a tiered storage environment: higher-RPM and reliable SAS drives for critical and I/O-intensive access, while large SATA drives for less-critical data, archive, or D2D backup. In addition to B12S-J, the B12F RAID series also supports a variety of expansion enclosures in 2U or 3U profiles, which support SATA drives.

Click here to see an overview of the supported or unsupported configurations.

A cabling guide is available through our sales representatives. You may also find cabling details in user's documentation.

Total Capacity with Expansion:

Up to 70TB (Max. Capacity Configuration - using 64 SATA HDD in single-controller JBOD)

- or -

14.4TB (Fault Tolerance Configuration - using 48 SAS HDD in dual-controller JBOD)

Scalability:

• Redundant-controller RAID - 3 JBOD
• Single-controller RAID - 4 JBOD
• 1U JBOD - Up to 4 JBOD for a total of 60 HDD
• 2U JBOD - Up to 4 JBOD for a total of 60 HDD
• 3U JBOD - Up to 4 JBOD for a total of 76 HDD

RAID levels:

RAID level 0, 1(0+1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60; arrays of different RAID levels can co-exist in a configuration.

Host connectivity:

• B12F-G1430 - 2 4Gbps FC SFP

Drive connectivity:

• 12 SAS* HDD via a passive backplane
• Drive-side expansion via SAS multi-lane SFF-8088 per controller

* For SATA drive installation on the redundant model, MUX board is required

Enclosure dimensions:

Rackmount size 1U

Package dimensions:

780 x 590 x 240mm

System weight:

• Gross weight-20.42kg
• Net weight-13.36kg

Electrical:

Environmental:

Regulatory:

• IEC 60068-2
• MIL-STD-810E/883E
• ISTA
• ASTM-D3332
• IPC-TM-650
• IEC 1000-4
• IEC 1000-3-2, IEC 1000-3-3
• ISO 7779/3744
• RoHS
• Microsfot WHQL-Windows Server 2003

EMC

• CE
  • EN 55022: 1998/A1: 2000/A2: 2003
  • EN 61000-3-2: 2000/A2: 2005
  • EN 61000-3-3: 1995/A1: 2001
  • EN 55024: 1998/A1: 2001/A2: 2003
• FCC (FCC Part 15, subpart B)
• BSMI (CNS 13438)

Safety

• UL (60950-1: 2003)
• BSMI
  • CNS 14336: 1993
  • IEC 60950-1, First Edition

Spare Parts

	IFT-9ACETRAY	Drive tray, 2.5" disk
	IFT-9ACPSU	Power supply module, for ES 1U/12-bay subsystems, 380W capacity
	IFT-9ACFanMod	Cooling fan module, for ES 1U/12-bay subsystems
	IFT-8ABF14RE12	Fibre to SAS RAID controller module, for ESB12F-R1430 subsystem, 2 x 4Gbps SFP host connector, SAS Exp.
	IFT-8ABF14RE12M5	Fibre to SAS RAID controller module, for ESB12F-R1430 subsystem, 2 x 4Gbps SFP host connector, SAS Exp. 512MB DDR RAM
	IFT-8ABF14GE12	Fibre to SAS RAID controller module, for ESB12F-G1430 subsystem, 2 x 4Gbps SFP host connector, SAS Exp.
	IFT-8ABF14GE12M5	Fibre to SAS RAID controller module, for ESB12F-G1430 subsystem, 2 x 4Gbps SFP host connector, SAS Exp. 512MB DDR RAM
	IFT-8ABF14GE12A	Fibre to SAS RAID controller module, for ES B12F-G1431 subsystem, 2 x FC-4G SFP host connectors, SAS Exp.
	IFT-8ABF14GE12AM5	Fibre to SAS RAID controller module, for ES B12F-G1431 subsystem, 2 x FC-4G SFP host connectors, SAS Exp. 512MB DDR RAM
	IFT-9ACLCD	LCD keypad panel, Type-I panel, for ES 1U/12-bay subsystems
	IFT-DDRESCEM5	512MB DDR RAM DIMM module for ASIC400 Platform.
	IFT-9011	Null modem, DB9 female to DB9 male, wires swapped
	IFT-9270ASCab (G1430/G1431)	RS-232C serial cable, audio-jack to DB9
	IFT-9270AYCab (R1430)	Serial port cable for dual-controller subsystems, 2 audio jacks -to- 1 DB-9 Y-cable
	IFT-9ACFANG	Fan module interface board, for EonStor 1U/12-bay single controller subsystems.

Accessories

	IFT-9AS1DT2S1S	Drive tray (2.5" HDD, Type-II handle and Type-II bezel), 2 SAS-to-1 SATA (SATA-II) MUX conversion, active-active port selector embedded, dual-controller subsystems
	IFT-9270CFCCab01	Optical FC cable, LC-LC, MM-62.5/125, Duplex, LSZH, O.D.=1.8mmx2, 1 Meter
	IFT-9270CFCCab02	Optical FC cable, LC-LC, MM-62.5/125, Duplex, LSZH, O.D.=1.8mmx2, 5 Meters
	IFT-9270CFCCab03	Optical FC cable, LC-LC, MM-62.5/125, Duplex, LSZH, O.D.=1.8mmx2, 10 Meters
	IFT-9277CSlider36	Enhanced slide rail assembly for EonStor 1U/12-bay series subsystems, 24" to 36" rack depth
	IFT-DDRESCEMA	1GB DDR RAM DIMM module for ASIC400 Platform.
	IFT-9270CUPSCab	UPS cable, audio-jack to DB9
	IFT-9270CUPSYCab	UPS Y-cable, audio jacks to 1 DB-9
	IFT-9ACBTE	Battery cell pack, Li-Ion, for EonStor 1U/12-bay series subsystems, BBU ID