RAID server
max. 12 GBps | SGI® InfiniteStorage™ 16000 SGI - Silicon Graphics

The SGI InfiniteStorage 16000 is the newest addition to the InfiniteStorage family, which delivers the optimum of mixed IO options in an extremely scalable and dense platform. To date, premium storage systems fall into two categories: those optimized for random IOPS or those optimized for bandwidth. The IS16000 is the first high performance platform to be optimized for BOTH bandwidth and IOPS. This means that the IS16000 provides a versatile high performance platform for diverse workflows.

Versatile Architecture
The IS16000 employs RAID, data integrity and data management software written from the ground up to take advantage of multi-core processors and modern bus architectures. Its highly threaded architecture allows performance to linearly scale with advances in underlying hardware. This same architecture allows the IS16000 to do what no other RAID controller has been able to do to date: to perform in the extreme range of both throughput and IOPS.

The IS16000 delivers up to 1 million random burst IOPS up to and 300,000 random IOPS to disk. Sequential block throughput performance up to 12GB/s for both reads and writes. Designed to house the most scalable unstructured file data, the system supports up to up to 1,200 drives of raw storage while enabling a combination of SAS, SATA or SSD drives.

Massively Multi-Threaded Storage Processing
A multi-threaded storage processing architecture ensures that both host I/Os and background data management functions are delivered with the highest speeds possible.