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RU5e Portable Rugged RAID

5 TB Compact RAID for Harsh Environments

Now you can take your demanding enterprise data-intensive application on the road! The rugged RU5e is a lightweight portable RAID subsystem built to extreme military standards to withstand any harsh field environment - a perfect companion for the Panasonic Toughbook. It's easy to deploy: simply plug and play with any rugged or standand laptop, desktop or server host having an XpressCARD-to-eSATA adapter, a USB 2 port or a FireWire 800 port. Ideal for transportable ground, shipboard or airborne data applications for emergency, military, police, oil exploration, mining, field studios, mapping, video, data acquisition and field data analysis.

Ruggedization
RU5e is designed to meet MIL-STD-810-E for environmental compliance and MIL-STD-461-D for Electromagnetic Interference (EMI). The solid seam welded sturdy aluminum construction throughout is designed to withstand very vigorous handling. The hinged front door is secured with two thumbscrews and provides easy access to the “hot-swap” drive carriers.

Individual drive lockdown thumbscrews
secure each drive to the chassis to minimize vibration avoiding potential read/write errors. With this sturdy protection, RU5e has been deployed by the military at hundreds of installations worldwide with field proven reliability and performance.

RAID Data Protection
RU5e is typically configured as a RAID 5 array with single parity, RAID 6 array with dual parity or as RAID 1+0 arrays (striped mirror sets). The high speed hardware ASIC parity engine automatically rebuilds data on a “hot-spare” disk or when a drive is replaced.

Ease of Use
The RU5e is “plug and play” with eSATA, USB 2 and FireWire 800, using any operating system and with no host software to load. It incorporates best practices in military design storage, emissions, and environmental. Storage is managed securely from the RU5e Web GUI via the LAN port, the front LCD console or from the RS232 port with error reporting in easy-to-understand terms.

	Portable & Rugged RU5e

	Transportable
	•	Compact and lightweight - 23 pounds

	•	Large recessed handle with rubber grip

	•	Can be stacked two high

	Ruggedization
	•	MIL-STD-810E, 461D, 1472F

	•	Operates from 0° to 120°F

	•	Thumbscrew lock-down drive carriers

	•	Robust aluminum chassis and cage

	•	Redundant ultra-quiet fans

	•	EMI shielded, gaskets and line filter

	•	Front and rear serviceable dust filters

	Performance
	•	Embedded hardware RAID controller

	•	Three high speed host ports: eSATA 1.5G - Up to 187.5 MB/sec. USB 2 - Up to 60 MB/sec. FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) - Up to 95 MB/sec.

	•	High speed hardware ASIC parity engine

	•	5 SATA drive channels, 300 MB/s each

	•	Up to 24,000 disk I/Os per second

	•	128 MB cache with ECC

	Capacity
	•	Five disks per enclosure

	•	500 GB, 750 GB, 1 TB per disk drive

	•	Up to 5 TB with 1 TB disk drives

	•	On-line automatic capacity expansion

	Reliability
	•	Hot-swap disk drives

	•	RAID 1, 3, 5, 6, 1+0, 15 protection

	•	Hot-spare on-line drive rebuild

	•	Remote diagnostic capability

	•	Individual drive thumbscrews and IDs

	•	Failure alarm -- visual/audible/remote

	•	1.2 million hour MTBF drives

	•	24x7 call center

	Compatibility
	•	Any host with eSATA, USB 2 or FireWire

•	Windows, Vista, Mac OS X, Linux

•	No software drivers required on host

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Environmental Specifications
MIL-STD-810E

Vibration
Transport in wheeled and tracked vehicles
Altitude
Operating: 15,000 ft
Non-Operating: 40,000 ft
Temperature
Operating: 0° F to 120° F
Non-Operating: -25° F to 150°F
Temperature Shock
0° F to 70° F and 120° F to 70° F in 10 minutes
Rain Test
Operates in conditions of blown precipitation and spillage
Humidity
10% to 95% (mist and fog)
Inclination
30° on any axis
Bench Handling
30° rotation drop from each bottom edge

Electromagnetic Compliance
MIL-STD-461-D
CE102, CS101, CS114, RE102, RE103

HEMP
MIL-STD-2169B

Human Factor Engineering
MIL-STD-1472F
Meets all general human engineering design criteria for military subsystems, such as grips, thumbscrews, door, weight, etc.

Preliminary Specification

Overall Performance
Max. sustained I/O rate	24,000 read/write operations per second
Host data transfer rate	eSATA 1.5G - Up to 187.5 MB/sec. USB 2 - Up to 60 MB/sec FireWire 800 (IEEE 1394b) - Up to 95 MB/sec.

Tabletop
Max. drives/Max. capacity		5 drives / 5 TB
Removable drive trays		Hot-swap all-metal carriers, drive lockdown thumbscrews, drive ID
Power supply		200W Hi-rel, UL, MIL-STD compliant
Fans		Redundant 65 cfm fans, thermal-controlled

SATA Disk Drives
Capacity per drive	500 GB, 750 GB, 1 TB; 7,200 rpm
Access time	8.5 msec.
Disk MTBF	1.2 million hours

Controller
RAID levels supported	1, 3, 5, 6, 1+0, 15, 16
On-line capacity expansion	Automatically adds new drives to existing array
Cache algorithms	Intelligent multi-threaded, write-back and writethrough caching algorithms with dynamic read lookahead for multi-user/multi-tasking servers
Cache memory capacity	128 MB with ECC
Max. logical units	5; flexible binding/partitioning of physical disks
Host and disk channels	1 eSATA, USB 2 or FireWire for host; 5 SATA for drives
Max. external cable length	2 m eSATA, 6 m USB 2, 100 m FireWire 800
LCD front panel	2x16 character display, push button controls
Operating consoles	Web GUI over LAN, LCD front panel, local terminal
Operating console functions	View and edit logical RAID/physical drives, setup hot-spare drives, map hosts, check parity, enable write-back cache, rebuild failed drive, view logs...
Performance monitoring	Display cache and disk read/write statistics

Compatibility
Operating systems supported (No software drivers required)	Any OS that supports eSATA, USB 2 or FireWire 800
Platforms supported	Any OS that supports eSATA, USB 2 or FireWire 800
Cluster supported	Any cluster
Remote monitoring ports	Ethernet and RS-232
SCSI compliance	ANSI standard SCSI-1, SCSI-2, SCSI-3

General
AC power	90 - 260 VAC, auto-ranging, 6 amps peak
Dimensions	8”h x 9”w x 14”d
Weight	23 lbs.
Standard warranty	One year, next day on-site and “800-Hotline” in U.S.
Installation and service	On-site installation, 24x7 service available in U.S.

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