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Enhance Technology, Inc., the market leader in enterprise and OEM storage systems, today unveiled their professional line of next generation SAS RAID storage solutions, the UltraStor RS16 SS, bringing the most cost-effective, integrated, & versatile Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) storage solution into the market. Built on the award-winning enclosure design, RAID technology, and dual 3Gb SAS connections, UltraStor RS16 SS provides a perfect blend of RAID protection and performance. New features include RAID-6 data protection, non-destructive RAID level migration, automatic background data regeneration, dynamic online volume expansion, streamlined web-based management and Multi-Path I/O support for Windows workstations & servers.

The UltraStor RS16 SS, a 3U 16-disk SAS storage array, represents the best performing SAS RAID storage solution currently available on the market capable of data transfers rates in excess of 800MB/s. RS16 SS combines latest SAS architecture and RAID technologies brings lower costs and higher performance as well as greater scalability and reliability to data intensive applications and mission-critical network environments. The new SAS RAID system supports up to 16TB of data across 16 SATA drives on RAID 5/6 with its powerful storage management tools used by small and medium businesses for its low cost and high capacity, and 4.8TB of SAS disks (300GB x 16) storage preferred by enterprise applications as a cost-effective alternative to Fibre Channel.

A fully programmable 3Gb SAS RAID controller can be configured for virtually any RAID level (0, 1, 0+1, 3, 5, 10, 50 and 6) to meet various data protection requirements and it provides professional features include automatic data regeneration, industry standard interface ports and a streamlined web-based management. Hot-swapable, redundant components including drive trays, power supplies, and cooling modules enable system maintenance without interruption of service. Pricing for the UltraStor RS16 SS starts at $4,950 for the unpopulated system and is now available with scalable storage capacity up to 16TB on RAID-5/6 on SAS or SATA HDDs directly through Enhance Technology and its authorized dealers worldwide.