PRODUCT : S2A9900

Overview

DDN S2A9900 is built for the following applications:

HD Video Broadcast & Post Production.
High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Supercomputing.
Modelling and Simulation.
Data Acquisition and Warehousing.
Storage Consolidation.
Massive Online Archives.

S2A9900 - Quick Facts

Industry-leading performance, capacity and density.

Largest scalable storage building block - up to Twenty (20) 60-drive 4U storage enclosures per system supporting 2.4PB in only two rack (84U).

Real-time, state machine parallel architecture with separate data and control paths for real-time streaming.

Enclosure-based intermixing of high-performance SSD, SAS and high-capacity SATA drives enables efficient tiered storage.

Native 8Gb Fibre Channel, 10Gb-Ethernet and/or Infiniband DDR.

SATAssure Plus real-time self-healing error detection and correction speeds up SATA drive rebuilds and protects against silent data corruption.

Always performs at full speed; Zero Degraded Mode.

Features high-performance DirectRAID 6 and D-MAID variable power down technology.

Writes data as fast as it reads it, with cluster formations scalable to provide 240GB/sec.

Provides balanced performance for diverse and con-current workloads.

Single systems manage up to 1,200 drives in just two racks. Clustered systems scale to dozens of petabytes.

Flexible and open to integrate with the best available parallel and clustered file systems.

S2A9900

Extreme Storage for Extreme Performance.

Recipient of multiple awards, including Frost & Sullivan's Digital Media Storage Innovation of the Year and HPCWire's Best Product and Technology of the Year, the S2A9900 is the pinnacle of DDN S2A technology and is designed to thrive in throughput-intensive environments, with scalable capacity unrivaled in the industry.

Developed over a decade of global deployments, our Silicon Storage Architecture, S2A, is a purpose-built architecture utilising custom FPGAs with extreme levels of intelligence, designed to solve the data infrastructure problems that others simply cannot. The S2A9900 is a purpose-built data infrastructure platform encompassing the S2A state machine architecture and advanced software that is specifically optimised for throughput-intensive applications, enabling clients to seamlessly adapt to the transition to all-digital content, manage the unmitigated explosion of unstructured data and deploy a centralised storage architecture.

The S2A9900 enables clients to run multiple applications simultaneously in parallel, whereas competitors force clients to run applications sequentially, costing more time, more money, and more management personnel. The S2A9900 is a technically elegant data infrastructure platform that cost-effectively provides extreme performance and capacity, managing 2.4PB in only two 44U racks and delivering sustained, real-time throughput per appliance of up to 6GB/s for both writes and reads. This S2A platform provides the performance and capacity headroom to scale as bandwidth and files continue to grow while providing real-time data integrity checking, error correction and intelligent drive failure recovery without degrading performance.

Proven for extreme scalability over 8 generations, the S2A9900 is the standard in the world's largest, most content-intensive environments. Today, DDN's most extreme user relies on the S2A9900 to power the largest and fastest file system in the world, delivering over 240GB/s of consistent bandwidth across 11 petabytes of scalable capacity.

S2A9900 Performance

Real-time, ZERO-latency data access.

6GB/sec sustained bandwidth - Reads and Writes - per system.

Parallel processing.

Supports over thirty (30) Apple Final Cut Pro workstations running uncompressed HD video - from a single platform.

Supports up to four (4) 4K video streams and two (2) 2K uncompressed video streams concurrently from a single system.