Adaptec Unified Serial (SATA/SAS) RAID Controllers Are the Preferred Choice for Hosting
Extract from White Paper
Choosing the Best Storage Controller
for Your Hosting Business
- Keeping infrastructure costs low
- Optimising operational costs
Keeping infrastructure costs low means getting the most storage capacity from the smallest amount of equipment possible. The high-capacity disks that seem like the obvious answer to this challenge, in fact, are only part of the solution. A much more important role is played by the RAID controller, which determines the maximum capacity that can be attached to a single system, whether you can start with less-than-maximum capacity, how easily capacity can be expanded, and how much training your IT team will require.
Optimising operational costs means choosing well-designed system components. Again, your choice of RAID controller will have a key impact on your operational costs. On a day-to-day basis, what will the cost of provisioning new users and IT hours spent managing the system add or subtract from your bottom line? While there is no such thing as a 100% bulletproof storage solution, it’s obvious that the less often your storage goes down and the more quickly you can recover data, the less it will cost you.
Together, minimising infrastructure costs and reducing ongoing operational costs provide a sure means of increasing profits ...
The Adaptec Series 5 family of SATA & SAS RAID controllers ... combine industry-leading performance with the industry’s largest range of port counts, the broadest choice of RAID levels, support for SATA and SAS disks, qualification of over 300 different drive and enclosure models and a choice of management options...
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