Hitachi To Unveil New Storage Array in 2007

Storage vendor Hitachi Data Systems will be announcing a new storage array in early 2007 that will have double the capacity and speed of its existing TagmaStore Universal Storage Platform arrays.

Code-named “Broadway”, the array can be deployed with one Integrated Control/Array Frame and one to four Array Frames, which will hold a maximum of 1,152 drives for a maximum internal capacity of 576TB and the ability to address as much as 256PBytes of external storage.

The array is a part of Hitachi’s TagmaStore USP line, which features Hitachi’s Universal Star Network Crossbar Switch to increase performance and scalability.

The interface to the hard disks will be a dual-ported 4Gbps Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL). The array will be able to contain 15,000RPM 73GB or 146GB drives or 10,000RPM 73GB, 146GB or 300GB drives, as well as the newest 500GB 7,200RPM drives.

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The new array will use the Hi-Star fourth-generation architecture, which will allow it to perform at up to 500,000 I/Os per second and support 512GB of cache memory. It will have Fibre Channel, iSCSI, network attached storage, Enterprise Systems Connection and Fibre Connection connectivity.

It will also include performance and resource management tools, as well as storage area management and device management software. Hitachi intends to make the Broadway array compete with ultra large storage systems such as the Fujitsu ETERNUS, EMC DMX and IBM DS8000.