Data storage refers to the safe deposit of data at some place for future usage. There was a time when the only storage mediums available were magnetic disks whose storage capacity was limited due to underdeveloped technology. The maximum amount of data that can be stored on a floppy disk was somewhere around 1.44 MB. With the advancement in technology, the traditional old floppy disks were replaced by CDs and DVDs which had a storage capacity of 700 MB and 4.0 GB respectively. But even this much storage space was not sufficient for the growing amount of data. So, high capacity hard disks came into play which can store up to 1 to 2 TB of data. For personal use, flash drives were introduced which can store from 1 to 64 GB of data.
But the main problem with all these storage devices was that they had a single point of failure. If a CD or a Hard Disk or a Flash Drive gets corrupted, all your precious data is lost. To solve this problem, StarWind introduces its all new storage appliance which works on “3-2-1 Backup Rule”. According to this principle, all your important data should have three different sorts of backups. So that if one of the nodes fail, you can still recover your data from rest of the two backups.
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StarWind Storage Appliance is basically a hardware device which comes with pre-installed storage mediums and anti-virus. This feature enables you to store your data on it without getting worried about attaching any external storage device to it. Moreover, all your stored data will stay safe since this device is virus protected. This device also has the access to cloud storage so you can store huge amounts of data without any storage limitations.
Benefits
The benefits that StarWind Storage Appliance offers are:
- Simplicity– Because this device is designed to serve multiple platforms
- Cost Efficiency– Because it has an optimized price. Moreover, the cost of any external hardware is also eliminated
- Performance and Features– This device gives an exceptional performance through its outstanding features because it can support multiple applications at a time, including antivirus program, backup and also storage management.
Features
The main features that this device provides are:
- Fault tolerance and high availability
- Asynchronous replication
- Automated storage tiering
- STARWIND Virtual SAN Hybrid Cloud
- STARWIND web-based management
- Scale up and Scale out
- Unified storage
- Commodity hardware and economics
- Optimized cache engine
- StarWind Log Structured File System
- Grid architecture
- Deduplication and Compression
- Converged (Compute and Storage separated)
- StarWind Stretched Clustering
- StarWind VVOLS
- StarWind SwordFish provider
- StarWind iSER
Storage Models of StarWind Storage Appliance:
StarWind Storage Appliance comes with the following 3 models for different uses:
- SA-1H Model- For small and medium volumes of secondary data from 4 TB up to 44 TB. This model provides fast failover and guarantees high availability. It is mainly used for secondary data and virtualization storage, medical records, primary backup storage with low PRO/ RTO requirements.
- SA-2H Model- For small to large volumes of primary data from 4 TB up to 500 TB and even more. This model provides high extent of fault tolerance. It is useful for primary virtualization and media storage, medical records and small database storage.
- SA-2AF Model- For small to large volumes of primary hot data from 4 TB up to 500 TB and even more. This model provides high performance for most demanding applications and also a very high extent of fault tolerance. It is used for databases, big data and primary virtualization storage.
StarWind Storage Appliance has solved the problem of many users who want to store huge bulks of data at a safe storage medium with minimum user intervention and without any limitations on storage capacity. It helps the organizations with fixed computational powers to meet their ever growing storage requirements by providing them with a high performance and fully scalable storage device that is available 24/7.