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Adaptec Intelligent Power Management Reduces Storage Power Consumption Up to 70 Percent
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Accessed through Adaptec Storage Manager(TM) software, Intelligent Power Management supports both SATA and SAS drives and is ideal for applications with large blocks of idle time, such as disk-to-disk backup, e-mail archiving and file and print servers. It allows drives to be operated in three power states: 1) Normal operation: full power, full RPM (revolutions per minute); 2) Standby(1): low-power mode that spins disks at lower RPM during idle periods; and 3) Power-off: disks not spinning. In addition, blackout periods can be set in which power management features are disabled, such as during peak IT activity periods.
IT managers can configure banks of disk drives to operate in different power states at varying times, and automate the drives to spin up and down according to drive usage patterns. When drives are accessed during pre-configured spin-down to Standby or Power-off modes, Intelligent Power Management quickly and automatically powers these drives back up, as needed, so performance is not impacted. Also, the Adaptec RAID controller automatically monitors drives that have been powered down for an extended period of time to ensure systems are still fully operational, allowing Intelligent Power Management to help reduce drive failures and increase drive life expectancy.
"As global data storage needs grow dramatically, so does the need for even more high-performance disk drives. Disk drives consume about 33 percent of all the storage in an IT environment(2) and are one of the most energy-intensive components in any computing system," said
IDC (http://www.idc.com) estimates that over 50 million disk drives are
currently spinning in external storage arrays worldwide, with the cost of
powering and cooling those drives exceeding
"The storage industry continues to offer up a variety of solutions to help
end customers to conserve energy," said
Adaptec Intelligent Power Management is compatible with 122 disk drives across five leading vendors, and the list of compatible drives is constantly expanding. Two examples of the significant reduction in power consumption found with two leading enterprise disk drives using Intelligent Power Management include:
-- Seagate Barracuda(R) ES SATA drive: power reduced by 70 percent from 8.6 watts in Full Power mode to 2.2 watts in Power-off mode
-- Hitachi Ultrastar(R) SAS drive: power reduced by 73 percent from 16.7 watts in Full Power mode to 4.4 watts in Power-off mode.
With Intelligent Power Management, the larger the deployment of controllers and the more drives connected to each controller, the larger the savings. Deployments of hundreds of Adaptec RAID controllers, connected to thousands of drives through expanders can lead to a cost savings of several hundred thousand dollars annually.
Adaptec Green Partners
Seagate Technology LLC (NYSE: STX) (http://www.seagate.com)
"As the world's leading disk drive manufacturer, Seagate is extremely
interested in complimentary data storage technologies that can add to the
overall value of our drives," said
Western Digital (http://www.westerndigital.com)
"Adaptec Intelligent Power Management used in conjunction with Western
Digital's high-capacity SATA drives delivers the industry's leading I/O
performance while minimizing power consumption," said
Supermicro (http://www.supermicro.com)
"As a leader in energy efficient computing, Supermicro embraces green technology and supports Adaptec's approach to further "greening" the data center with Intelligent Power Management," said Tau Leng, general manager of marketing and HPC at Supermicro. "Providing our customers with earth-friendly Server Building Block Solutions(R) is a top priority at Supermicro, and we look forward to incorporating Adaptec Intelligent Power Management into our industry-leading green server and storage solutions."
AIC (http://www.aicipc.com)
"At AIC, we've made a public commitment to providing environmentally-
conscious storage chassis solutions that provide state-of-the-art performance
and full-feature capabilities for a wide range of applications," said
Chenbro (http://www.chenbro.com)
"Reducing power consumption is at the top of virtually every one of our
customers' requirement lists; along with performance, reliability and cost,"
said
Rorke Data (http://www.rorke.com)
"Rorke Data is a subsidiary of Bell Microproducts that specializes in data
storage solutions for diverse Digital Content applications such as
Surveillance, Broadcast and Healthcare Imaging. As the sheer amount of data
storage in each of these markets grows exponentially in just the next few
years, our customers are demanding new levels of efficiency and cost savings
that goes beyond the metric of price per gigabyte plus service contract
costs," said
"Greening" Tiered Data Storage with Intelligent Power Management
In the last several years, many IT departments have implemented tiered storage systems as a means of cost-efficiently managing their growing data storage requirements. Tiered storage is a method of organizing and prioritizing data based on the importance of the data and/or the frequency with which it is accessed. In a tiered storage environment, very important and frequently accessed data is stored on high-performance drives while less important and infrequently accessed data is stored on lower-performing, less expensive drives. By using Adaptec Intelligent Power Management, companies can easily and at no additional cost further increase the efficiency of tiered storage architectures. By powering down the drives used to store "tier two" data, IT departments can significantly reduce power consumed.
Adaptec's Green Commitment
As the need to reduce IT energy costs becomes increasingly important in today's IT environments, through its Green Power initiative, Adaptec has increased its focus on energy efficient technology development to address this issue. Underscoring this commitment, Adaptec is a member of the Green Grid (http://www.thegreengrid.org/home), a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.
Intelligent Power Management Availability
Intelligent Power Management is offered as standard on all Series 5 and Series 2 Unified Serial RAID controllers, which are available immediately from Adaptec distributors and resellers.
About Adaptec
Adaptec provides trusted storage solutions that reliably move, manage, and protect critical data and digital content. Adaptec's software and hardware-based solutions are delivered through leading channel partners and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) to provide storage connectivity, data protection, and networked storage to enterprises, government organizations, medium and small businesses worldwide. More information is available at http://www.adaptec.com.
Seagate and Seagate Technology are registered trademarks of Seagate
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(1) Must be supported by the disk drive
(2) InfoStor, "How green is your storage?" June 2008; Written on behalf of
the Storage Networking Industry Association's Green Storage
Initiative. The authors' company affiliations are: Larry Freeman
(NetApp), Craig Nunes (3PAR), Phil Tsihlis (EMC), and Al Thomason
(IBM).
(3) IDC, "The Real costs to Power and Cool All the World's External
Storage," Doc # 212714, June 2008
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