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Introduction
The Altos S700 Series provides a highly flexible, high performance
storage solution that evolves to meet your changing needs. Based on a
modular, "building block" enclosure design, the Altos S700 Series
offers exceptional scalability. Each enclosure supports up to 14 disk
drives, in a dense 3U form factor. As your storage needs grow, simply
add Altos S700 enclosures dynamically - up to a total of 8 enclosures.
The Altos S700 Series can be scaled in multiple dimensions, enabling
flexible configuration of capacity, performance and functionality, to
match and grow with virtually any application or IT environment. The
enclosure is available with your choice of copper, or optical I/O
modules, with RAID Controller option, and is downward compatible to
1Gbps, protecting your investment. A high performance, industry first
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Quad Loop
(4 FCAL loops on one enclosure) capability provides over
700 MB/s from a single enclosure. 2Gb Fibre Channel connectivity
provides simplified cabling and extremely high bandwidth, for
outstanding performance in demanding applications.
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Quad Loop functionality is only available on JBOD systems.
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