LaCie 12big Rack Fibre Datasheet

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre

Uncompressed HD-Capable Enterprise Class Storage

Up to 60TB

Lightning-Fast. Robust. Enterprise Class.

Storage Just Got 12 Times Better.

A Complete Storage Solution

The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre offers the most storage, the highest speeds, and unparalleled reliability. It’s the ideal solution for film professionals working with HD, as well as for

IT managers looking for a sophisticated, rock-solid storage solution. The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre has 12 individuallytested Enterprise Class disks, supports six RAID modes, including 5, 50, and 6, and allows the user to create up to 60 cost-effective enterprise class SATA disks or 92 high performance SAS drives disk arrays. The LaCie 12big Rack

Fibre is a great addition to any Storage Area Network (SAN), and thanks to its user-friendly, browser-based interface, management is easy and downtime is reduced.

Uncompressed HD Video Ready

The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre is perfect for creative professionals who need to work with multiple streams of uncompressed HD video. It features up to four 4Gb/s fibre channel connections, and when combined with active/active dual RAID controllers, it can support six simultaneous 4:2:2 uncompressed video streams in RAID 5. Achieving the right performance level is easy with the 12big’s preconfigured, customizable performance profiles. Choose among “High

Availability”, “High Performance”, and for single or multiple video users the 12big Rack Fibre performance fine tuning will be made instantly.

Fully Redundant—Fully Reliable

In addition to the 12 hot-swappable disks and individuallytested enclosures, the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre’s dual RAID controller option, two power supplies, and redundant cooling units are hot-swappable, providing the ultimate in security.

With the 12big Rack Fibre, there is no single point of failure and a backup battery helps to ensure that cached data within the RAID controllers can even survive a power failure.

Accessing your data from Mac ® , Windows ® , or Linux-based workstations can also be done through multiple fibre channel connections and multipathing drivers.

Data Archiving—Down to the Last Detail

The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre provides everything you need to store data efficiently and long-term. Its advanced power management features prolong drive life and save energy by stopping the drive when the data isn’t being accessed, and starting them up again when necessary. To prevent data corruption over time, the 12big periodically scans disks to ensure the data will be accessible when requested. The 12big will also recalculate parity and locate it elsewhere on the drive when it detects a bad block on a specific drive. For the ultimate security and peace of mind, LaCie includes the LaCie

Advance Care Option, for maximum service and support.

Pay As You Grow

The 12big Rack Fibre can expand along with your organization. It's a scalable solution that can be expanded through daisy-chainable 12big Rack expansion units to go along with your storage needs. Its flexibility allows it to directly attach to workstations (one to four), and fit within a

SAN. Adapting to your growing storage demands is simple; the 12big Rack Fibre supports multiple disk sizes and arrays, and can even be expanded during operation through dynamic disk array and LUN expansions.

Professional Management Software

With StorView software, it’s simple to configure and administer the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre. Its web-based interface helps automate control of cache, arrays, and devices. StorView also offers access to the RAID Advanced Power Management

Program, which administrators can use to minimize the

12big’s operational costs, and Snapshot software helps assist in data recovery.

• A complete enterprise-level storage solution

• Supports up to six simultaneous 4:2:2 uncompressed HD

video streams

• Fully redundant and reliable

• Supports multiple disk sizes and arrays

12big Rack Fibre Performance*:

Post-Production Environment- Enterprise class SATA Drives

Direct-Attached

Number of Drives

Max number of Uncompressed SD* streams

Max number of Uncompressed HD* streams

Single Controller

Single FC Connection

6 Drives 12 Drives

4

1

8

2

SAN Environment

Number of Drives

Max number of Uncompressed SD* streams

Max number of Uncompressed HD* streams

Single Controller/Multiple Host

Single FC Connection

6 Drives 12 Drives

9

2

11

3

Dual Controller

Dual FC Connection

12 Drives 24 Drives

9

3

14

4

Dual Controller/ Multiple Host

Dual FC Connection

12 Drives 24 Drives 36 Drives

11

3

13

5

16

6

Video bit rate: SD is Uncompressed 8 bit 25FPS (720 x 576)= 21MB/s / HD is Uncompressed 8bit 422 25FPS (1920 x 1080P)= 104MB/s. Note: All configurations except for the maximum HD config use: 7200 RPM SATA Drives / 1X, 2X, 4X 6 Drive RAID 5 Arrays / 64K Chunk size / WBC set to Max / RAC set to Auto / 1 LD per

Array / Sequential Write Optimization set to High / Overload Management set to Disabled / Controller LUN Disabled / Atto HBA's and Atto Multipath Driver used /

Disable cache Writethrough operation when write cache is full / Disable Synchronize Cache Writes to Disk / The XSAN Metadata drive is on separate storage.

Corporate IT Environment – Enterprise Class SATA Drives

Performances RAID 5-12 SATA Drives

Sequential Read IOPS

Sequential Write

31K

14K

Random Read IOPS

Random Write IOPS

547

20K

P e r f o r m a n c e ( I O P S )

P e r f o r m a n c e ( M B P S )

4 0 0 0 0

3 5 0 0 0

3 0 0 0 0

2 5 0 0 0

2 0 0 0 0

IOPS

1 5 0 0 0

1 0 0 0 0

5 0 0 0

0

0 .5

4 8

S e q W r

1 6 3 2 6 4

S i z e ( k B )

S e q R d

1 2 8

R a n W r

2 5 6 5 1 2

R a n R d

1 0 2 4

8 0 0

7 0 0

6 0 0

5 0 0

4 0 0

MBPS

3 0 0

2 0 0

1 0 0

0

0 .5

2

2 4 8

S e q W r

1 6 3 2 6 4

S i z e ( k B )

S e q R d

1 2 8

R a n W r

2 5 6 5 1 2

R a n R d

1 0 2 4

Dual Controller – 4 x RAID5 (5+1) Logical Drives – SAS 146G Drives – Write Back Cache – 256K Chunk – TQM Disabled

Sequential Read Mbs/s

Sequential Write Mbs/s

645

516

Based on performance characterization done July 2008. Based on 4x RAID5

(5+1/)/(4+2), 24 drives, QD=32,

Chunk Size 256K, R2.4 (3.05.0020).

IOPS higher with more drives, IOPS with

WBC Max. TQM is disabled.

Corporate IT Environment – Enterprise Class SAS Drives

Performances RAID 5-12 SATA Drives

Sequential Read IOPS 120K

Sequential Write 27K

Random Read IOPS

Random Write IOPS

7.5K

2.6K

15

1200

1000

MB/s

800

600

400

200

1800

1600

1400

0

0.5k

15 15

1200

1000

MB/s

800

600

400

200

1800

1600

1400

Seq Read

Seq Write

Rnd Read

Rnd Write

2k

0

512k 1024k

I/O S iz e I/O S iz e

Dual Controller – 4 x RAID5 (5+1) Logical Drives – SAS 146G

Drives – Write Back Cache – 256K Chunk – TQM Disabled

Seq Read

Seq Write

Rnd Read

Rnd Write

140000

120000

100000

80000

IOPS

60000

40000

20000

140000

120000

100000

80000

IOPS

60000

40000

20000

15

Sequential Read Mbs/s 1567

Sequential Write Mbs/s WB 891

Seq Read

Seq Write

Rnd Read

Rnd W rite

0

0.5k

2k

0

512k

I/O S ize I/O S ize

Dual Controller – 4 x RAID5 (5+1) Logical Drives – SAS 146G

Drives – Write Back Cache – 256K Chunk – TQM Disabled

1024k

Based on performance characterization done July

2008. Based on 4x RAID5

(5+1/)/(4+2), 24 drives,

QD=32, Chunk Size

Rnd Read 256K, R2.4 (3.05.0020).

IOPS higher with more drives, IOPS with WBC

Max. TQM is disabled.

Case Studies:

How the 12big Rack Fibre Can Work for You

A Creative Suite

Storage Solution

Get great results using simple solutions; start with a single workstation and active/active dual RAID controllers. From the offline film and video edit to the online conform and color correction, this solution matches terrific speed with reliable performance. Now, you have the ability to work with clients in the same room, editing a project using proxy resolutions such as Apple’s ProRes 422 from uncompressed

HD film and video. Once your clients are satisfied with the edit, put on your online editor’s hat to begin the conform and color correction without changing seats or fussing with timeline metadata. The 12big Rack

Fibre can easily handle the most challenging projects, placing you and your clients at ease.

• One workstation attached to one 12big Rack

Fibre enclosure

• 4 x 4Gb/s fibre host bus adaptor connection for

enhanced transfer speeds

• Scalable storage up to five enclosures

• Media accessed by one user

12big Rack Fibre

4Gb/s

Fibre

Channel

Link

Workstation

Mini SAS

Mini SAS

12big Rack Expansions 4Gb/s

Fibre

Channel

Link

Workstation 1

12big Rack Fibre

Workstation 2

Workstation 4 Workstation 3

Centralized Media

Rather than running from one room to another trying to balance data and storage management in multiple workstation environments, consider centralizing your media with the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre.

Whether offering multiple editing solutions to individual clients in a rental house or managing the creative services department in a company producing in-house industrials, you can now control the workflow and apportion storage as needed to each operator. Best of all, the 12big Rack Fibre can be situated centrally in your engineering room for ease of access.

• Four workstations attached to three 12big Rack

Fibre enclosures

• 1 x 4Gb/s fibre host bus adaptor connection

per user

• Scalable storage up to five enclosures

• Independent project media accessed by four

users simultaneously

SMB Post-Production SAN

Collaborative post-production solutions allow for less time spent ingesting media, perhaps in duplicate or triplicate fashion, and more time at work on the project. The

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre is more than capable of tackling the demands of shared media projects. Film and television editors often face time-sensitive deadlines that are stymied by the inconvenience of separate workstations ingesting the same media on stand-alone storage. Now, with the 12big Rack Fibre, multiple editors can divide their workload while accessing the same material. Using a

SAN file system such as Apple’s Xsan provides easy access to shared media files. Whether you work for a commercial editing boutique that needs to share frequently used graphics and titles, or a post-production facility that creates single and multi-camera productions, the 12big Rack Fibre offers the speed, flexibility, and expandability to complete projects on time due to the reduction of redundant operations.

• Three workstations and one server attached to

three 12big Rack Fibre enclosures

• 1 x 4Gb/s fibre host bus adaptor connection

per user

• Scalable storage up to five enclosures

• Shared media via SAN file system

Mini SAS

Mini SAS

SAN File System

Multipurpose Server 

12big Rack Expansions

12big Rack Fibre

Mini SAS

Mini SAS

Mini SAS

Mini SAS

12big Rack Expansions

SAN File System

Multipurpose Server 

12big Rack Fibre

Fibre Channel Switch 

Workstation 1 Workstation 2 Workstation 3 Workstation 4 Workstation 5

Workstation 6 Workstation 7 Workstation 8 Workstation 9 Workstation 10

Workstation 1

Workstation 2

Workstation 3

Enterprise Post-Production

SAN

Facilities with multiple editing, graphics, and audio workstations often lose time exchanging files via external and independent storage or waste endless hours maintaining separate hard drives. The LaCie 12big Rack Fibre is the perfect solution to move everyone onto a shared space thus providing a centralized media hub for easy management. No matter if your operators need to share media or access a library of graphics and titles run on multiple packages, the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre can easily handle the time-critical demands of large workgroups. Connected to a server via Ethernet and running media management software, the LaCie 12big Rack Fibre is the ideal solution for building a media library due to its vast capacity and expandability in an economical two-rack unit enclosure.

• Multiple workstations and one server attached

to five 12big Rack Fibre enclosures via

multi-port fibre channel switch

• Up to 4 x 4Gb/s fibre host bus adaptor

connections per user depending on switch

port availability

• Five full capacity enclosures

• Shared media via SAN file system

System Requirements

• PC or Mac or server with a 4Gb/s fibre

channel HBA

• Windows 2003 (IA32, EM64T, IA64); RedHat Linux

AS4/EL5 (IA32, EM64T, IA64); SuSE Linux 9/10

(IA32, EM64T, IA64); or Mac OS 10.4 and later

• Supported web browsers: Internet Explorer 6.0 or

higher, Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or higher, and Safari

2.0 or higher

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre Box Content

• LaCie 12big Rack Fibre single controller enclosure

• 2 x SFP connectors

• 2 x 4Gb/s Fibre Channel LC to LC optic cables (3m)

• Rack mounting rail kit

• UK, EU, US power cords

LaCie 12big Rack Expansion Box Content

• LaCie 12big Rack Expansion single I/O module

enclosure

• SFF-8088 to SFF-8088 Mini SAS cable (2m)

• Rack mounting rail kit

• UK, EU, US power cords

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre Accessories:

Accessory Name

FC/RAID controller

I/O module

Spare drive

Spare drive

Spare drive

Cooling unit

Power supply

Spare battery

Mini SAS cables

FC cables

SAN mapping

Snapshots

Item #

131006

131005

131003

131004

131064

131007

131008

131019

131013

131014

131017

131018

Description

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre FC/RAID controller (for replacement or redundancy) 

LaCie 12big Rack I/O module (for replacement or redundancy) 

LaCie Spare 1TB 12big Rack enterprise drive with drawer 

LaCie Spare 2TB 12big Rack enterprise drive with drawer

LaCie spare 600GB SAS 12big Rack drive with drawer

LaCie 12big Rack Serial/Fibre rescue cooling unit 

LaCie 12big Rack Serial/Fibre rescue power supply 

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre spare battery 

LaCie 2m Mini SAS cables 

LaCie 10m FC cables (LC connectors) 

SAN mapping license on 12big Rack Fibre

StorView Snapshot licenses on 12big Rack Fibre

ADVANCE

CARE OPTION

LaCie Advance Care Option

Because LaCie develops storage solutions that meet both the performance and security needs of professionals, we also offer complete product support and a range of services that ensure maximum peace of mind for the customer. Our LaCie Advance Care Option underscores LaCie’s commitment to providing service and support that adds value to your investment.

A LaCie Advance Care Option is the ultimate time-saving solution, helping you get back to work and secure your data faster. Once a Technical Support representative determines that your product needs to be replaced, LaCie will ship you a replacement product immediately. You do not need to pay any freight costs, or even send us your drive first. With our suite of 12big products, the LaCie Advance Care

Option comes standard.

LaCie 12big Rack Fibre

Capacity 

Item Number

External Interface

Supported Operating

Platforms

Supported Hosts

Expansion

Total Number of Disks

Total Expansion Capacity

Disk Drives

RAID Controllers

System Management

System Availability

Dimensions

Electrical

Environmental: Operating

Environmental:

Non-Operating

Environmental: Storage

Warranty

6TB SATA 12TB SATA 7.2TB SAS 24TB SATA 12TB SATA enterprise enterprise enterprise enterprise enterprise class drives class drives class drives class drives class drives

24TB SATA enterprise class drives

7.2TB SAS enterprise class drives

LaCie 12big LaCie 12big LaCie 12big

Rack Expansion Rack Expansion Rack Expansion

131010 131011 131031 131012 131031 131032

2 x 4Gb/s Fibre Channel per controller point-to-point, loop and fabric (switched) topologies

131062

Windows 2003 (IA32, EM64T, IA64); RedHat Linux AS4/EL5 (IA32, EM64T, IA64); SuSE Linux 9/10

(IA32, EM64T, IA64), Mac OS 10.4 and later

256, 512 LUNs, LUN Masking, >2TB LUNs up to 5 LaCie 12big Rack Expansions can be connected through miniSAS (SFF-8088) connections up to 60 SATA drives or 92 SAS drives

60TB

Interface types: SAS (3Gb), SATA-II (3Gb) dedicated bandwidth to each drive

Max drives per enclosure: 12, 512 logical drives/system, automatic bad sector assignment

Single RAID controller with dual controller option

RAID modes Supported: Up to 60 SATA or 92 SAS Drives disk arrays with independent RAID modes 0, 1, 5, 6,

10, and 50 support, selectable stripe sizes (64K, 128K, and 256K)

RAID protection features: Background initialization, background parity checking, and automatic drive rebuild with redundant RAID arrays

RAID controller cache: 2GB cache per controller (selectable by volume: read, adaptive read-ahead, write through, write-back), battery backup

Software: StorView, StorView Path Manager, Snapshot

Interfaces supported: Ethernet (out-of-band)

Hot-swappable components: disk drives, RAID controllers, power supplies and cooling modules

Additional features for reliability: StorView Path Manager- Windows host based dynamic multi-path failover

Snapshot: Up to 24 snapshots per logical drive, and up to 512 snapshots per RAID system

Height: 87.9mm (3.46”) 2 EIA units

Width: 443.7mm (17.49”) IEC rack-compliant

Depth: 550mm (21.65”)

Weight: 32.21kg (71 lbs.) dual controllers with drives

Voltage: 100-240 V AC @ 50/60 Hz single phase Input Power: 300W typical

Input Current: 6.0A (115 VAC), 3.0A (230 VAC)

Temperature: 5º to 40ºC (41º to 104º F)

Humidity: 8% to 80% non-condensing

Altitude: 0 to 2,133m (0 to 7,000’)

Temperature: 1º to 50ºC (33.8º to 122º F)

Humidity: 8% to 80% non-condensing

Altitude: 0 to 12,192m (0 to 40,000’)

Temperature: 1º to 60ºC (33.8º to 140º F)

Humidity: 8% to 80% non-condensing

Altitude: 0 to 12,192m (0 to 40,000’)

3-year

Shock: 5g 10ms 1/2 sine

Vibration: random 0.21 grms 5-500Hz

Acoustics: <58 dB LpA @20º C

Shock: 30g 10ms 1/2 sine

Vibration: random 1.04 grms 2-200Hz

Shock: 30g 10ms 1/2 sine

Vibration: random 1.04 grms 2-200Hz

*All tests assume: the performance attained during testing is with a fault-tolerant system and the results gained will be invalid if either a RAID controller or a HDD fails or a rebuild is initiated. If the required bandwidth has to be attained with a failure of rebuild in progress, headroom must have been allocated within the initial system design. NLE and standard reads and writes are tested within a mutually exclusive environment.

Performance may vary from one computer to another.

**All configurations use: 7200 rpm SATA drives / 6-drive RAID 5 arrays / 64K chunk size / WBC set to "Max" / RAC set to "Auto" / 1 LD per array / Sequential Write Optimization set to "High" / Overload Management set to

"Disabled" / Controller LUN disabled / ATTO HBAs and ATTO multipath driver used / Disable cache writethrough operation when write cache is full / Disable synchronize cache writes to disk / The XSAN metadata drive is always on separate storage.

***Video bit rate: for read test purposes it has been defined that SD is uncompressed 8-bit 25FPS (720X576) = 21Mb/s. HD is uncompressed 8-bit 422 25FPS (1920X1080P) = 104Mb/s. As such, if lower resolutions are used more streams could potentially be supported. External - for write test purposes it has been defined that HD is uncompressed 10-bit 4:2:2 25FPS (1920X1080P) = 210Mb/s. This will require an external HD source to generate the video.

 Recommended for optimal performance in configurations, but not required for purchase.

 Hot-swappable.

 Hot-swappable if the product is used with dual controller options and multipathing drivers.

 1TB= 1000GB. 1GB = 1000MB. 1MB = 1,000,000 Bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending upon operating environment (typically 10% less).

Capacity and cache memory vary depending upon RAID mode.

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