Isilon's new S200 array is capable of achieving 1.4 million Network File System (NFS) operations per second and 85GB/sec of aggregate throughput. The array is aimed at accelerating access to large, indexed data stores for design and simulation, digital media, financial analysis and high performance computing workflows.

The is powered by Intel's Xeon 5600 Quad Core processors with SSDs from STEC and Hitachi 2.5-in, 10,000rpm SAS drives. It also has dual gigabit Ethernet and 10 gigabit Ethernet ports on the front end and dual InfiniBand ports on the back-end. Each 2U (3.5-in high) appliance has up to 14.4TB of capacity and 512MB of RAM.

Isilon claims nodes can be added to a cluster in about 60 seconds, scaling up to 2.1TB of disk capacity (144 nodes) under a single file name. The S200 and X200 arrays support Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX and Apple OS X clients.

The new X200 array boasts about 30GB/sec of aggregate throughput and can scale from a single node with up to 24TB per node or 3.4PB of capacity in a 144-node cluster. The box is aimed at big data workflows in cloud computing, life sciences, Internet services and large-scale virtualized environments.

The new generations of the X200 and S200 are fully compatible with the previous generations, so they can be seamlessly integrated into existing clusters on a node-by-node basis.