Sun Storage J4200 Array

Breakthrough Pricing

Slashing the cost of add-on storage

With a cost of approximately $1 per gigabyte, the Sun Storage J4200 cuts the price of add-on storage, making it your best value for inexpensive, high-performance, reliable storage. Plus, the groundbreaking ZFS file system is included at no extra cost.

Delivering high bandwidth

The Sun Storage J4200 offers up to six 3 Gb/sec SAS ports. When the ports are combined, the array provides up to 72 Gb/sec total bandwidth.

Security and Reliability

Virtually unlimited snapshots protect data

The ZFS file system, which is included with OpenSolaris and comes with the Sun Storage J4200, helps prevent data corruption and provides virtually unlimited snapshots. Plus, everything is checksummed. As a result, the J4200 provides 30% higher data integrity when compared to the competition.

High availability

Designed for reliability, the Sun Storage J4200 array includes redundant JBOD SAS I/O modules, power supplies, and cooling modules, ensuring high availability. Active-active I/O module architecture, hot-swappable disk drives, and dual SAS/SATA paths with interposer cards are your assurance of 24/x7 availability.

Simplified Management

Run-anywhere flexibility with Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager

The free, downloadable Sun StorageTek Common Array Manager software delivers run-anywhere flexibility from a common, simple-to-use interface. The software takes the complexity out of storage management, enabling you to accelerate deployment, simplify your environment, and improve utilization.

Near-zero administration with ZFS

ZFS provides you with data protection, virtually unlimited scalability, and near-zero administration. It enables you to grow and shrink file system capacity without administrative intervention, reducing provisioning time by 50%. ZFS also reduces cost and complexity by streamlining storage administration and allowing resources to be shared. This can cut the time required to perform certain functions from hours to just seconds.

The flexibility to meet your needs

The Sun Storage J4200 supports both SAS and SATA II hard disks, providing you flexibility to meet your system requirements. This results in a more cost-effective storage solution for a variety of application requirements.

Grows With Your Business

Powerful scalability

Each Sun Storage J4200 array supports up to 48 SAS or SATA II hard disks. With a total capacity of up to 14.4 TB for SAS hard disks or 48 TB for SATA II hard disks, the J4200 delivers the scalability you need to meet your growing business requirements.