Product Highlights
Volume Virtualization Technology
Supports multiple RAID types and volume segments on
a single drive and supports online capacity expansion,
volume reconfiguration and migration on the fly.
Expansion Options
The DSN-4100 and DSN-4200 primary arrays each
support 16 internal SAS/SATA hard drives and with the
addition of up to four DSN-4000 expansion arrays, can
scale to a total of 240TB
of raw storage capacity using
2
3TB
drives.
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DSN-4000 Series
xStack Storage® 4x1GbE or 8x1GbE iSCSI SAN Array
with 16 SAS/SATA Bays (expandable to 80 bays)
Features
• Handles Over 80,000 I/Os per Second
• Battery Protected Cache Memory:
DSN-4100: 512MB
DSN-4200: 1GB
• System Memory: 512MB standard
• 16 Hot-Swap SAS/SATA Hard Drive Bays
• Supports 48TB
Capacity with 3TB
2
• Additional DSN-4000 Expansion Arrays Provide
240TB
Total Capacity
2
• RAID Support: 0, 1, 1+0, and 5
• Supports up to 1024 volumes and host
connections
• Mix and Match disk drives within a single array
• Different Capacities, Manufacturers,
Technologies and Speeds
• Volume Virtualization technology
• Supports multiple RAID types and
volume segments on a single drive
• Optimizes capacity utilization and
maximizes performance
• Supports Online Capacity Expansion,
Volume Reconfiguration and Migration
on the fly
• Drive Roaming supported in Power Off
• Dual redundant Hot Swappable 450 Watt Power
Supplies
• Industry Standard 3U 19-inch Chassis
Hard Drives
2
Introduction
D-Link's DSN-4000 series (DSN-4100 and DSN-4200) iSCSI SAN arrays provide a mid-range
network storage solution in a 3U rackmount form factor, ideal for small and medium sized
enterprises. The heart of the DSN-4000 series is a powerful 10Gbit iSCSI System-on-a-Chip
(SoC) capable of handling over 80,000 I/OS per second. The DSN-4000 series supports
48TB
of raw capacity using 3TB
drives and can be easily implemented as a supplemental
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2
backup platform for quick restores, as secondary online storage, or as bandwidth
demanding primary storage for security surveillance and A/V applications.
iSCSI for IP Networks
Storage Area Networks (SANs) have traditionally been reserved for complex Fibre
Channel networks. The recent introduction of iSCSI has extended the powerful
centralized storage capabilities of SAN technology to IP networks. By utilizing existing
Ethernet technology, the costs associated with Fibre Channel switching, separate
host bus adapters, expensive storage subsystems and administration is significantly
reduced. iSCSI SANs leverage the Ethernet infrastructure and standards that are already
familiar to most IT personnel.
A Choice of Host Interfaces – Four 1GbE or Eight 1GbE
The DSN-4100 & DSN-4200 iSCSI SAN arrays support Multi-path I/O (MPIO),
Multiple Connections per Session (MCS), and Link Aggregation Groups (LAG) for
unmatched network flexibility, performance and resiliency, allowing their 1GbE
data ports to be grouped together for full line speeds of up to 425MB/s and
850MB/s bandwidth respectively.