Advatronix Cirrus 1200: a Storage Server Under Your Desk
by Johan De Gelas on June 6, 2014 5:00 AM ESTThe Specs
Below you can find the detailed specs.
| Advatronix Cirrus 1200 (version 2013) | ||
| CPU & RAM |
Intel Xeon E3-1265LV2 4C/8T (2.4 GHz, 8MB L3) Up to 32GB of ECC DDR3 UDIMMs dual channel, 1600 MHz |
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| Motherboard | Supermicro X9SCL | |
| Storage | Drive Bays |
12 x 3.5" hot swappable (hard drive cage) Populated w 8x Seagate NAS HDD ST4000VN000 4TB—RAID-10 All HD write back caches disabled 6x 2.5'' hot swappable (SSD front drive cage) Populated w 2x Intel SSD710 200GB—RAID-1 |
| Controller | Adaptec ASR71605Q with "MaxCache" and BBU Enabled | |
| Cooling | Front | 80mm fan |
| Rear | 2x 120mm fan | |
| Top | none | |
| Left Side | 80mm fan | |
| Bottom | none | |
| I/O Ports |
4x USB 2.0 front 2x USB 2.0 rear 2x RJ-45 Ethernet rear PS/2 mouse and Keyboard RJ-45 IPMI 2.0 Ethernet VGA D-sub Serial Com Optional : 1x RJ45 10G Ethernet |
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| Power Supply |
One 400W 80 Plus Gold PSU (not in our review unit) or Dual Redundant Athena Power 500W AP-RRMUD6508 (review unit) |
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| Case Dimensions |
Height 14" 13/16" (376mm) Width 12" 1/2" (317,5mm) Depth 12" 5.5/16" (313mm) Weight—54 lbs (24.5 kg) |
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| Prominent Features |
Cube design Two large 3.5" disk enclosure with hot swappable drives and one Pricing includes 12 SATA drives |
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| Price | starting at $4449 (with CentOS and 4GB of RAM) | |
Advatronix clearly targets people with demanding storage requirements: even the low-end configuration comes with ten 2TB SATA drives (RAID-5 + one hotspare) for your data, and two 250GB SSDs in RAID-1 for your boot disks. To keep the starting price low, the server only comes with 4GB RAM, which is a bad call in our opinion. Even if you use the Advatronix as a massive capacity NAS, the extra RAM is very helpful as the OS can use the RAM as file system cache. For $150, you can get 16GB, so it's not a big deal, but it would have been better to start with two 8GB DIMMs.
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JohanAnandtech - Sunday, June 8, 2014 - link
The last point is where you make a reasoning error. Most enterprises just do not want to build their own fileserver, otherwise there would be not NAS market.sciencegey - Monday, June 9, 2014 - link
I was using the last point as an example of what a SOHO could do, which this storage server is targeted at.tential - Saturday, June 7, 2014 - link
Why couldn't they just sell the case by itself.....I don't need a 4500 system, I need a decent case like that.
Aikouka - Monday, June 9, 2014 - link
Yeah, I was hoping this was actually just a server case review. =(AdvatronixSystems - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - link
We do sell the case by itself! :)Please contact sales@advatronix.com if you're interested.
watersb - Sunday, June 8, 2014 - link
Thanks for reviewing this. Very interested in storage servers. But at these price points, I'm still in "build-your-own" territory.YouInspireMe - Sunday, June 8, 2014 - link
I have truly enjoy reading and have learned so much observing the high level exchange of knowledge here on this site I wonder if you could offer a little insight to a less knowledgeable fan of this sight. Other than it being headless and having lower power consumption what are the advantages/differences between a standard server and dedicated PC with sharing on a local network.JohanAnandtech - Monday, June 9, 2014 - link
Thanks. Another advantage is the build-in BMC which allows you to do remote management (remote power on, remote console). The rest is rather obvious: very little time is needed to replace PSU and the disks. I would definitely like the latter in my desktop :-).CalaverasGrande - Monday, June 9, 2014 - link
this looks like a server from the 90's except with a powder coat finish! So it must be good?RoboKaren - Wednesday, June 11, 2014 - link
Why not look at the BackBlaze StoragePod 4.0 derived commercial product, the Storinator: http://www.45drives.com/products/If I had $5k to spend on storage, I'd give it a serious look.