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S2A9900 SAN Storage System

Real-Time Performance and Capacity Optimized Intelligent, Self-Healing Storage

Unstructured, file-based content is rapidly becoming the primary data type of

the 21st century. Data center managers are challenged by exploding data sets
and performance requirements, while headcount and budgets remain fixed.
Proactively planning for growth requires a storage architecture that will scale in
performance and capacity while reducing the total cost of ownership.
The S2A9900 from DataDirect Networks (DDN) is the eighth generation of Silicon
Storage Architecture (S2A), purpose-built to meet the extreme requirements
of todays data and content-intensive world. S2A Technology provides highly
parallel architecture and a hardware accelerated state-machine delivering
sustained and predictable performance, innovative and industry leading
performance, quality of service, data protection and density that enable you to
deploy and mange fewer systems to meet todays changing data patterns and
the explosive growth in capacity and performance requirements. Significantly
lowering both acquisition costs and total cost of ownership. S2A9900 is equally
ideal for performance-driven, real-time streaming applications, providing up
to 6GB/s of sustained throughput; and to consolidate capacity-centric online
archives, efficiently storing up to 3.6 petabytes in just two floor tiles.

Features

Ideal Applications

Guaranteed QoS: Real-Time Streaming

Rich Media and Cloud

Leading Performance: Read and Write

at 6GB/s

Broadcast, Post Production,

VoD, Digital Intermediate

Leading Density: 1,200 Drives in Just

Two Racks

Serve Multiple SD, HD, 2K and

4K streams concurrently

Tiered Storage: Intermix SSD, SAS, SATA

Web 2.0 and Content

Archiving

Go Green: D-MAID Power Management

Technology
Eliminate Data Corruption: SATAssure

TM

Zero Degraded Mode: For Rebuilds or

Failures

HPC and Life Sciences

High Speed Cluster Storage

Digital Security & CCTV

Centralized or Distributed
Surveillance Sites

Traditional IT
High-Speed NAS Storage
Rapid Backup/Restore
Virtual Tape Library/De-dup
Storage

Genomics Research

Remote office/Disaster
Recovery

Oil and Gas

Satellite Ingest

S2A9900 Capabilities:
The fastest disk controller we
could find was from DataDirect
Networks. It met our needs in
terms of price and performance.

Read and Write at the Same Speed: The only system to eliminate the standard 50% write
performance penalty, so ingest and other write-heavy applications perform faster

- Microsoft Studios
Xbox Live

RAID 6 Without Compromise: DDN DirectRAIDTM provides the double parity protection of RAID 6
without the performance penalties found in every other system

Real-Time Quality of Service: Always at Full-Speed: While write activity, capacity utilization, data
integrity checks and drive rebuilds slow down other systems, the S2A9900 always performs at fullspeed to ensure sustained performance

Power Down and Save: is a policy-based feature, ideal for archives, that spins down inactive drives
to reduce power and cooling. Unlike typical MAID systems, D-MAID spins-up rapidly and doesnt
require a fixed portion of the systems drives to be powered down

We chose DDN because of its

performance, scalability, and data
integrity capabilities.
- NASA Ames Research Center

Ensures data integrity by detecting and correcting errors on every read in real-time without any
impact to application performance or usable drive capacity

Standard Software Features

LUN Mapping and Masking PowerLUNs
Intelligent Stream Detection
and/or Port Zoning

Real-Time Data Verification Read-Only LUNs A/V Slow Drive Avoidance
Background Data Scrubbing DirectAPI DirectMirror LUN Caching

Optional Software Features

System Management Console
Java-Based GUI Pager and E-Mail Fault
with SNMP Notification

The World Leader in HPC

Oak Ridge National Laboratory
selected 48 S2A9900s to build the
worlds fastest and largest POSIX
file system.
DDN systems power 15 of the
worlds top 20 HPC systems in the
world.

Sleep Mode Read-Only LUNs Remote Administration

Utility

Product Attributes - Active/Active Dual Controllers (Couplet)

Sequential Read and Write Up to 6GB/s
Protection Level DirectRAID (Parity), 8+2(RAID6)
Max Drives

1,200

Cache

5GB - RAID protected

Host Connectivity

8x FC8, 8x IB (DDR)

Client Support

Windows, Linux, Solaris, IRIX, AIX, Mac OS

Environmental Attributes - Active/Active Dual Controllers (Couplet)

The World Leader in

Digital Media
The S2A9900 is the recipient
of multiple awards, including
Frost & Sullivans Digital Media
Storage Innovation of the Year
and HPCWires Best Product and
Technology of the Year
DDN technology powers over 600
digital media facilities worldwide.

Learn more at ddn.com/9900.

Dimensions
Height - 7.0 (17.8 cm)

Width 19 (48.3 cm)
Depth 31 Including Front Bezel (78.8cm)
Average Power

800W/3.84A

Average Cooling

2730 BTU/hr

Voltage Range

85-264 VAC

Weight

90lbs (41.0 Kg)

Certifications UL, CE, CUL, C-Tick., FCCS

Environmental Attributes - 4U Enclosure (60 drives)

Drive Types SSD, SAS and SATA
Dimensions
Height - 7.0 (17.8 cm)

Width - 17.56 (44.6 cm)
Depth - 36.2 (92 cm) without bezel: 40.6 (103 cm)

w/bezel and cable management arms
Average Power

1750W

Voltage Range

190-264 VAC

Operating Environment

10 Deg C 35 Deg C

Weight

240 lbs (109 Kg) with drives

120 lbs (54.5 Kg) without drives

Certifications UL, CE, CUL, FCC

9351 Deering Avenue

Chatsworth, CA 91311

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Version-5 04/11