For mid-range and small businesses, storage
needs can appear to be a problem. As the business grows so also grows the
storage sizes. As a solution to this problem, the HP D2700 is ideal. A host of
features are present in this model and so it gives quite a fight to its
competitors.
A look at the features will help realize the
power of it:
- The primary feature that speaks for it is of its low cost. For small and mid-range companies this can be quite an advantage as they would not have to spend a fortune on storage.
- The other basic factors that count for it are its flexibility and tiered external storage system.
- It has a small form factor with 25 drive bays offering solutions in simplifying the process of expansion of capacities.
- The D2700 can more than double the transfer rate of present 3 Gb solutions. This results in an increase of bandwidth.
- The modular platform allows businesses to make purchases as and when they require. There is absolutely no form of hidden cost included and no hidden management charges.
- Depending upon the need and the budget, additional dual port SAS drives can be added.
- As the levels of redundancy and reliability are high it reduces the single points of failure.
- There is no problem of matching SAS and SATA drives in the same setup. There is also tiered storage for attaching customers directly.
- The D2700 can support solid state drives.
- The system can support the growth of 96 drives. A single controller port can be formed can be formed by 4 large form factor enclosures.
- It has the ability to support 200 drives and 4 small factor enclosures can be connected from just a single port.
- The drive level can be extended up to 148 with Gen 8 smart array controller.
- Managing the HP D2700 is a breeze since there is ProLiant management tool. Also there is the Systems Insight Manager software for easy managing of the device.
- The device can work with certain smart array SAS controllers.
- It is not required that the installer should possess much knowledge about IT.
The specifications of this device are:
- The drives can vary from 72 Gb 6G 15K SFF to 500 Gb 3G 7.2K SFF.
- The maximum storage capacity is 25Tb.
- The host interface is 6 Gb/sec SAS.
- The form factor is 2U.
