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New SAS/SATA Bridge (MUX) Board for DS Family

The new SAS/SATA Bridge (MUX) board, which allows standard single port SATA to function as dual port SAS devices and enables cost-effective, high-capacity SATA SSDs or HDDs to be used in high availability redundant storage solutions, is now available for the EonStor DS family. This optional accessory will replace the 3Gb/s SAS/SATA MUX boards, improving maximum overall IOPS and throughput.

Benefits

• Excellent value choice with SATA SSD for increasing performance in all flash/hybrid storage solution (SSD Cache and Automated Storage Tiering)
• One bridge board suit for different form factor models of 2U-24 bay, 2U-12 bay, 3U-16 bay and 4U-24bay.

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Performance Test

Response Time	< 0.5 ms				< 1.0 ms
Size	4K Read	32K Read	8K OLTP (70% Read, 30% write)	4K VDI (20% Read, 80% write)	4K Read	32K Read	8K OLTP (70% Read, 30% write)	4K VDI (20% Read, 80% write)
IOPS	374K	129K	128K	86K	383K	239K	189K	113K

*Tested by DS 4000 Gen2 with 24x SATA SSD and 6Gb/s SAS/SATA bridge board

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Suitable Models

Bridge Board P/N	Description	Family Support	Release
9AHMUX6G-0010 *	SAS/SATA bridge board, for redundant controller models with SFF (2U 24-bay) and LFF drive trays.	EonStor DS Family **	04/2018
		EonStor GS Family	Q3/2018
9BHMUX6G-0010 *	SAS/SATA bridge board, for redundant controller models with SFF (2U 25-bay) drive trays.	EonStor GS Family	Q3/2018

*SAS/SATA Bridge Board supports both SAS 6Gb/s and 12Gb/s models.

**4U-60bay model is not supported by SAS/SATA bridge board.

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