D-Link Announces iSCSI SAN Array For Businesses

D-Link recently introduced its new DSN-6000 Series iSCSI SAN Array, which comes with standard security features such as snapshot, volume cloning and remote replication. According to the manufacturer, the snapshot technology enables admins to restore data without the need to go through a back-up recovery process.

 “The DSN-6000 underscores D-Link’s unwavering commitment to enterprise customers, offering a range of capabilities that directly meet the needs of today’s small and medium enterprise IT environments,” said Mark Prowten, vice president at D-Link. “The DSN-6000 series features a host of new enhancements based on feedback from customers, including a range of data services, such as snapshot, volume cloning, remote replication, RAID 6, online firmware upgrades and active-active controllers to deliver high performance, flexibility, ease-of-management, and to help eliminate added software licensing costs.”

The DSN-6000 series is available as DSN-6110 and DSN-6410 iSCSI SAN array models in a 2U form factor.

Buyers can choose to equip the array with up 36 TB of space using 12 SAS/SATA hard drives. The devices can be extended with up to four DSN-6020 expansion JBODs, which can scale the storage capacity to 60 storage bays or up to 180 GB of total capacity. D-Link said that the DSN-6110 includes four 1 GbE Copper iSCSI data ports per controller and delivers data throughput of up to 900 MB per second. The DSN-6410 has two 10GbE iSCSI data ports per controller with 1300 MB per second bandwidth.

The DSN-6110 has a suggested retail price of $8,225, while the DSN-6410 is priced at $10,025. The DSN-6020 Expansion JBOD lists for $4,815.

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