Nexsan AutoMAID Overview
The Nexsan AutoMAID™ is a energy saving technology used with Nexsan Storage products
Nexsan's evolutionary AutoMAID (Automatic Massive Array of Idle Disks) energy saving technology transparently places disk drives into an idle state to vastly reduce power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effective benefits of MAID 2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.
Nexsan AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings. Nexsan AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings. Nexsan AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.
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Highlights
- Nexsan AutoMAID Key Points
- Nexsan AutoMAID reduces power and cooling costs
- Nexsan's AutoMAID delivers the benefits of MAID without the limitations
- Available on Nexsan SATABoy and SATABeast
- Nexsan AutoMAID Safety Features
- In maximum power saving mode, drive spin up is sequenced to reduce power surges
- Drives automatically wake up for periodic surface scan to ensure data integrity (user configurable)
- Nexsan AutoMAID has no impact on performance if left on in data-intensive server applications
- Only two simple configuration settings – "timeout" and "power savings desired"
