iStorage S4100

In November 2000 NEC announced two models, the iStorage S4100 large, high-performance disk array unit and the iStorage S2100 mid-sized disk array unit. The iStorage S4100 supported storage area network (SAN) architectures and had a maximum storage capacity of 31 terabytes, the largest class of storage in the industry. It realized large-scale high-speed disk array subsystems with the use of an internal X-Bar bus, with a total performance of 12 GB per second, and a building block architecture that joined together disk enclosures.