Hitachi SMS100 SAS 8 x 146GB Dual H043-100437-01.P Leaflet

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D A T A S H E E T
Hitachi Data Systems
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100 is a simple and reliable solution for small 
and medium businesses (SMBs) that offers enterprise-class storage features 
and data protection solutions. Simple Modular Storage is ideal for growing 
businesses looking for storage systems that are easy to install and manage, 
and easy to integrate with applications such as Microsoft
®
 Windows and 
others common to the small business segment.
 
Hitachi Simple Modular Storage 100   
If your business is like most SMBs, you don’t 
have a team of storage experts to install or 
manage your storage platforms. With Hitachi 
Simple Modular Storage, a team of experts 
is not needed. You can install this cost-
effective platform in minutes. The installation 
and configuration software is wizard driven. 
After setup, operation of the storage system 
is largely hands off. Hitachi Simple Modular 
Storage is designed to run for years without 
disruption. You can spend your valuable  
resources on managing, securing and  
growing your business without the cost  
or complexity associated with disparate  
storage systems management on servers.
Feature Highlights
While Hitachi Simple Modular Storage may  
be easy to install and simple to manage, it also 
offers powerful, enterprise-class features that 
are more common in higher priced and more 
complex storage solutions. They include:
High Availability. Simple Modular Storage 
offers storage with no single point of failure. In 
simple terms, this means that multiple things 
can go wrong and you’re still in business. If 
one controller is unavailable, all data volumes 
are still available via a second controller. And 
what happens if a drive fails? No problem. 
Simple Modular Storage makes use of RAID-6 
technology for nondisruptive operation. In a 
RAID-6 configuration, any two drives can fail 
at the same time — a highly unlikely event — 
and you still haven’t lost any data.
Simple Maintenance. Should a disk drive 
fail, your Simple Modular Storage will continue  
to operate as if nothing happened since 
RAID-6 configurations allow any two drives 
to fail without losing data. The easy-to-use 
Hitachi Storage Navigator Modular 2 software 
will notify you that a drive has malfunctioned 
and direct you to contact the support center, 
which will send a replacement. Once it  
arrives, just plug the new disk into one of 
the two repair slots on the device. You don’t 
even have to take out the faulty disk. The 
system automatically rebuilds the RAID 
group. Should you ever need to replace the 
entire unit, just put the new Simple Modular 
Storage in place, plug it in, point and click 
the easy-to-use, automated copy software 
and your data is copied from the old system 
to the new one.
Built-in Data Protection. Data protection 
tasks are simplified with point-and-click, 
graphical user interface (GUI)–based Hitachi 
 
Business Solutions
Hitachi Data Systems and its Hitachi 
TrueNorth Channel Partners offer 
industry leading technology to help 
organizations of all sizes meet their 
unique requirements for business 
continuity, regulatory compliance and 
data recovery. Together, we provide 
cost-effective storage products and 
solutions that leverage world renowned 
Hitachi global R&D resources to  
deliver performance, availability and 
scalability — supporting business 
critical applications and strengthening 
competitive advantage. 
Complementary/Optional 
Software
Hitachi ShadowImage
®
 Replication 
software for full volume backups  
and recovery (available on dual  
controller models)
Hitachi Simple Data Recovery
1
 soft-
ware for asynchronous copy between 
Simple Modular Storage devices 
(available on dual controller models)