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For a while now, Nexsan has offered two 42-bay, 4U SAN arrays: the SATA-only SATAbeast and the  SASbeast which allowed you to mix SATA and 15k rpm SAS drives.  The SASbeast also had more powerful  controllers in it.   This begged the quesiton: with the prices so similar why even have the SATAbeast….well that question is being answered.

Nexsan is migrating to one platform, the SASbeast..in a nutshell

• SATAbeasts will be phased out and migrated to SASbeasts
  • Allowing for SATA and SAS drive tiers in same chassis
• 2GB Cache is now standard (vs 1GB)
• Pricing has been dropped substancially

And you still get all the things that made these boxes a hit to begin with:

• 42-bay, 4U Rackmount Chassis – Ultra-Dense!
• iSCSI and Fibre Channel Connectivity in same chassis
• Active-Active Controllers
• AutoMAID Energy-Saving Feature
• 3-Year Warranty w/ 24×7 Phone Support

All of the above conspire to make the SASbeast an unbeatable value whether you’re looking for a high-performance or high-capacity solution (or both).   Yes, we said unbeatable…For what you get and what you pay, the SASbeast trumps everything in its class…its not even close.

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