The EPICa EP-4423J/JD-S3S3 is a 19-inch 4U rackmount JBOD unit. It comes with 42 hot-swappable bays and is the Proware's most versatile SAS/SATA II Disk Expansion system, ideal for high capacity and scalability storage in most popular OS environments. Based on 3Gb SAS Channel host interfaces, the EP-4423J/JD-S3S3 supporting the choice of SAS and SATA II drive configurations to deliver the best cost-performance index with higher bandwidth.

The ability to mix SAS and SATA drives allows the EP-4423J/JD-S3S3 to be used for a range of applications that require different price/performance characteristics. Cost-effective SATA drives can be selected for capacity orientated storage such as disk-to-disk backup and the storage of reference data.

Higher specification SAS drives can be employed for I/O intensive applications including transactional databases. Hosting multiple tiers of data in an EP-4423J/JD-S3S3 configuration gives organizations the flexibility to meet both their technical requirements and budgetary constraints with a single unified solution.