Product description
The MSA 1040 arrays leverage a MSA architecture with a processor, 2-host ports and 4 GB cache per controller. Take advantage of the latest hard drive advances by choosing the form factor and technology which best meets your application and budget requirements. Unlike many competing arrays, the MSA 1040 ships standard with intuitive management tools and powerful data services such as snapshots and volume copy for increased data protection.
Product features
- Scalability
The MSA 1040 arrays are designed to allow an installation to begin with smaller capacity and be able to grow gradually as needed. The flexibility of SAS or SAS MDL drives technology, form factors, sizes, speeds, and costs per GB allows a system to easily fit in almost any budget. - RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50
In addition to the usual RAID levels, the MSA 1040 features several important additional levels. RAID 6 is the highest level of RAID protection. It allocates two sets of parity data across drives and allows simultaneous write operations. It can withstand two simultaneous drive failures without downtime or data loss. RAID 10 is mirroring and striping without parity. RAID 50 combines the block striping and parity of RAID 5 with the straight block striping of RAID 0, yielding higher performance than RAID 5 through the addition of RAID 0, particularly during writes. - Hot plug expansion and replacement support
MSA 1040 supports hot plug expansion and replacement of redundant controllers, enclosures, fans, power supplies, and I/O modules for simple, fast installation and maintenance. Hot add expansion of disk enclosures is also supported. - Snapshot and clone
MSA 1040 arrays come standard with 64 snaps, 512 snaps available. This controller based functionality offers higher levels of data protection, enables an almost instant recovery from data failure or corruption and offers alternative development testing of "offline" production data and the ability to backup snapped/cloned data.
