NEC Storage NV5300S/NV5300 (Sold only in Japan)

High-reliable midrange NAS product with excellent price performance

NEC Storage NV5300S/NV5300

  • This model provides high-end class performance with midrange price point.
  • High performance file access enabled with the installation of a unique OS tuned only for NAS.
  • High performance, high reliability storage with a high-speed RAID controlled LSI developed from experience with the NEC Storage S series.
  • Large-capacity, low-price SATA disk drives are supported.

Features

High functionality

  • Tamper proof function, which prevents alteration or erasure of the files for a certain period.
  • TCO can be dramatically reduced through easy operation management with NEC Storage Manager IP.
  • A wide variety of functions such as the snapshot function that allows management of up to 255th generation backup.

High Performance

  • High-speed data transfer with FC interfaces supporting 400 MB/s.
  • High performance file access enabled with installation of a unique OS tuned only for NAS.
  • High performance, high reliability storage with a high-speed RAID controlled LSI developed from experience with the NEC Storage S series.

High reliability

  • Through hardware support by RAID-6, data can be protected even in case of double HDD failure.
  • Equipped with an ICA card*1 for inter-node high-speed data transfer during cluster construction.
  • High-end class reliability such as redundancy of NVRAM and other main components is provided with midrange price point.
  • Supports the port failover function and the link aggregation function for maintaining network access during network failure.

*1 The dedicated hardware engine used for inter-node communication during cluster construction. By exchanging data using the dedicated hardware engine, it is possible to execute high-speed data exchange without imposing loads on the CPU.

Scalability

  • Each file system supports up to 20 TB. Disks can be added or dynamically expanded in accordance with the increase in data volume.
  • 2 Gigabit Ethernet ports and up to 30 disk drives are supported.
  • Supports 2 Gbps fiber channel disk drives of 73 GB/147 GB/ 300 GB, and 500 GB SATA disk drive.
  • Up to 5.7 TB with FC 300 GB disk drive, up to 8.6 TB with FC and SATA disks mixture.

Optional features

  • The replication software tuned for the NEC Storage NV series (MVD Sync by Mountain View Data) will allow a wide variety of replication styles such as a star shape.

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