NEC's D-Series SAN Storage arrays provide highly available and easily scalable storage for your SAN without sacrificing performance and flexibility. They include high-end features you won't find on other mid-range arrays, but at a lower cost than other systems. There are four models –

D1 Small to Medium Fibre Channel (up to 72TB FC)

D3i IPSAN (up to 144TB, iSCI attach SAS, SATA, and SASD/SATA intermix)

D3 Large Fibre Channel (up to 144TB, Fibre attach SAS, SATA, and SASD/SATA intermix)

D8 Data Center (up to 1.5 PetaBytes, 4-64 ports, 3-1,536 HDDs}

as well as a complete array management suite for businesses of all sizes that includes snapshots, replication, performance management, multipathing, failover, compliance, energy conservation, and more.

NEC D8

The D8 has many built-in features and supports all of the NEC enterprise class storage software capabilities. The D8 brings an innovative architecture to the mid-range that provides tremendous flexibility, resiliency, and scalability, along with Thin Provisioning for high capacity efficiency.

The "nodal" architecture with "neural cache" provides much more configuration flexibility than traditional architectures, so configurations can be tailored to your needs. There is much more hardware redundancy so even in the event of a failure, performance is not as severely impacted as it is with the traditional dual-controller architecture. And by scaling from just a few hundred GB of data to over 1.5 PB, the D8 is great for storage consolidation. The cache can grow non-disruptively all the way to 128 GB from just 4 GB to meet various performance needs.

Feature	D8
Controller Nodes	1 - 4
Host Interface	4 Gbps Fibre Channel
Host Ports	8 - 64
Capacity (max)	1.5 PB
HDDs	3 to 1,536
HDD support	SAS, SATA , and SAS + SATA intermix
Cache	4 - 128 GB
Cache Backup	Nonvolatile flash memory
Supported OS	Windows Server® 2003 (x86, x64) Windows Server 2008 (x86, x64) VMware Red Hat® Enterprise Linux HP-UX Solaris