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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mrshadow75 - Thursday, June 12, 2014 - link
If I had $5k to spend I would seriously have a closer look on used EMC² CX3 or CX4 storages on ebay.... you almost can´t beat the features and performance of those...AdvatronixSystems - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - link
Well, there are quite a few reasons why I wouldn't go with the server you suggested. (I'm looking at their redundant PSU version, which is over $6.7k starting price.)It comes with a redundant PSU, a dual-core i3 Processor, 2 500GB drives, and a pair of HBA cards. Again, over $6.8k.
Or, for $4,564, you can get a Cirrus with a redundant PSU, an actual server grade, quad-core processor (E3-1265L V2), an actual hardware RAID card with 1024mb cache. Also, it includes TWELVE drives, not two. :)
Compare yourself - http://www.45drives.com/products/order/dw-redundan... or http://www.advatronix.com/store/servers/cirrus-120...
nagi603 - Monday, June 16, 2014 - link
Damn, I wish I could just buy the chassis itself with the bays for my unRAID array...AdvatronixSystems - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - link
You can, actually!Please contact me at sales@advatronix.com and we'll get you set up.
snwcrash - Thursday, July 3, 2014 - link
Does Advatronix make this chassis? I would love to purchase it separately :-)AdvatronixSystems - Saturday, September 27, 2014 - link
It is indeed our own proprietary chassis, and we do sell it by itself.If you're interested in acquiring the chassis separately, you can contact me at sales@advatronix.com.