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EMC launches DMX array with high storage capacity

26.01.2006
EMC Thursday announced its largest high-end array yet, offering hardware with a scalability range that allows it to be used in mid-sized shops as well as the largest enterprises. The DMX-3 array also sports three different types of Fibre Channel drives that allow users to move storage across tiers of disks inside the array.

Along with DMX-3 storage array announcement, EMC also released an upgrade to its Celerra NAS engine that produces up to four times the performance of previous models along with new iSCSI capabilities that allow remote replication of data over IP.

Dave Donatelli, executive vice president of storage platform operations at EMC, said during a news conference this morning that the DMX-3 array can scale up from 96 to 2,400 drives in a single frame for up to 1 petabyte (PB) of capacity. "You can grow this online without any disruption to your applications," he said.

The array offers up to three types of Fibre Channel drives: a 500GB lower-cost drive that runs at 7,200 RPMs; a 300GB midrange drive that runs at 10,000 RPM; and a 146GB high-end drive that runs at 15,000 RPM.

The three sets of drives can be run simultaneously within a single frame and data can be automatically moved across them using policies based on the age and criticality of the data, according to Ken Steinhardt, director of technology analysis at EMC.

Retail pricing for a DMX-3 with 96 drives and 7TB capacity starts at US$250,000.