AutoMAID™ Energy Saving Tech

SATABeast Xi is a high performance, high capacity RAID storage system with the energy saving benefits of MAID 2.0 (Massive Array of Idle Disks). SATABeast Xi employs Nexsan's revolutionary AutoMAID energy saving technology to transparently place disk drives into an idle state vastly reducing power and cooling costs. AutoMAID delivers the cost-effective benefits of MAID 2.0 without the limitations of slow access times and special host software.

AutoMAID is granular to an individual drive or RAID set and offers multiple levels of energy savings. AutoMAID is user selectable enabling users to determine the right level of response time performance to energy savings. AutoMAID is the first MAID 2.0 architecture that supports VTL, full file format D2D and standard high performance RAID implementations.

Key Points

• AutoMAID reduces power and cooling costs

• Nexsan’s AutoMAID delivers the benefits of MAID without the limitations

• Available on Nexsan SATABoy and SATABeast

AutoMAID Defined

• AutoMAID automatically reduces power consumption and heat generation on idle drives

• Trade-off between response times and power savings are user configurable

• AutoMAID behavior happens automatically and transparently to host – no software changes required