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Labs Gallery: Dot Hill 2722 Provides Solid Storage in a Small Form Factor
by Matt Sarrel
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SAS Drives
The Dot Hill 2722 is equipped with 24 15,000-rpm SAS drives.
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Rear View
Here you see the 2722 from behind, with redundant power supplies and storage controllers.
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Hot-Swappable
Each of the two controllers is hot-swappable and contains supercapacitors and compact flash memory for cache backup.
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Diagnostic and Management Utility
The QLogic SANsurfer diagnostic and management utility displays plenty of helpful information about the attached Fibre Channel SAN.
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RAIDar
The RAIDar management GUI opens to the System Overview page, which shows the status of various components at a glance. The menu bar running across the top (including View, Provisioning, Configuration, Tools and Wizards) puts all functions a maximum of two clicks away.
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Help
Context-sensitive help is thorough and informative.
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Rear Graphical View
The rear graphical view makes troubleshooting very easy. Here, green checks indicate that everything is operational.
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Front Graphical View
The front graphical view also aids in troubleshooting. Clicking on a disk causes an orange LED to flash on the physical drive.
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