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z-box desktop
The groundbreaking Hammer Z-Box HZD4B offers unprecedented performance and scalability to small businesses and corporate workgroups. Z-Box HZD4B combines high-performance block I/O never seen before on a desktop device with the file and volume sharing of a NAS to deliver the solution of choice in desktop shared storage. Advanced RAID protection and seamless capacity expansion round out a hard-to-ignore solution.
Configuration options
- 1.0 TB (HZD4B-1000)
- 1.6 TB (HZD4B-1600)
- 2.0 TB (HZD4B-2000)
- 3.0 TB (HZD4B-3000)
Unique Z-Box Features and Benefits
The Z-Box offers several exclusive features unavailable through competing products:
- Eliminates need for and cost of specialized hardware like Fibre Channel switches, host-bus adapters, TCP offload engines and RAID controllers
- Aggregates for capacity up to two Z-Box enclosures. Maximum aggregate capacity is 6 TBs with highest capacity hard drive available.
- Distributed RAID delivers hardware RAID functionality and the ability to extend RAID volumes across physical enclosures
- Multi-initiator file system delivers NAS-like file and volume sharing on a block-based device
- Z-SAN technology from Zetera simultaneously optimizes on performance, scalability, reliability and cost
| Capacity and Interface | |
|---|---|
| Enclosure Capacity | Up to 3 TBs |
| System Capacity | Up to 6 TBs, subject to hard drive capacity |
| Network Interface | 1 x GbE |
| Hard Disk Interface | 4 x Serial ATA II |
| RAID Constructs | 0, 1, 0+1 |
| Compatibility | |
|---|---|
| Operating Systems | Windows 2000 SP4, Windows XP, Windows 2003 |
| File Systems | NTFS, Z-FS multi-initiator file system from Data Plow |
| Performance | |
|---|---|
| Single Enclosure Performance | Up to 80 MB/sec |
| Physical Dimensions | |
|---|---|
| H x W x L (in) | 7.6 x 6.4 x 12.8 |
| H x W x L (mm) | 190 x 162 x 325 |
| Weight (lbs / kg) | 19.9 / 9.04 |
| Power Requirements | |
|---|---|
| Requirements | 110-240V 50/60Hz |
| Consumption | 40W max |
| Operating Conditions | |
|---|---|
| Temperature | 5 to 35 °C |
| Humidity | 20% to 80% (non-condensing) |
| Operating Shock | 3.5G, 3ms |
| Non-Operating Shock | 30G, 1ms |
| Operating Vibration | 0.25G at 2Hz to 200Hz for 15 mins |
| Non-Operating Vibration | 1.14G at 2Hz to 200Hz for 15 mins |
| Safety and Agency | FCC Class A / CE / UL / CB |
| Warranty and Support | |
|---|---|
| Hardware Warranty | One Year |
| Software Warranty | One Year Software Support |
| Optional Support Upgrades | Up to 3 Years Next Business Day Onsite |
| Contents in box | |
|---|---|
| Hardware | ZBox Desktop 4-Bay w/ 4 SATA II hard drives |
| Cables | Network Cable, Power Cable |
| Hardware Installation | Quick Start Guide |
| Software Installation | PSM Installation CD w/ PSM User Guide |
- z-box desktop datasheet (pdf 188KB)
- z-series quick start guide (pdf 1.46MB)
- z-series hardware guide (pdf 1.64MB)
- z-box comparisons (pdf 339KB)
- personal storage manager user's guide (pdf 664KB)
- personal storage manager release notes (pdf 240KB)
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