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Customer Testimonials

"When you depend on your systems for making your living, it's critical to work with people who understand the Apple product line and how it works for business. MacAuthority has helped us to grow from four people to over 60, and we wouldn't dream of going anywhere else."

Ed Brown
Partner
Iostudio, LLC

 

"The folks at MacAuthority run an impressive whirlwind of productivity. They tend to move quick and really understand the "right now" that is so often a factor in technology procurement. They are not just the usual IT shop, but come to the table with a balance of tech and style, art and utility, that is certainly becoming of someone in the Apple business. If you're a digital art person or just a 1's and 0's techie, they have skills to offer across the board."

Lucas Leverett
Jive Digital

 

"Our company has purchased Macintosh computer equipment from MacAuthority for 10 years. Their convenient location, excellent service department and knowledgeable staff make doing business a pleasure."

Tracy Holder
IT Director
Bohan Agency

 

Product Solutions

At MacAuthority, we offer a broad product portfolio so we can provide our customers with the most comprehensive solutions. If you know what you need, we’ll get it. If you have a problem, we’ll solve it!

Product Portfolio

MacAuthority draws from manufacturers, publishers, and suppliers across the industry; we can deliver an out-of-the box experience even if the solution is not. From Computers to iPods, Printers, Accessories, and Software, we supply every aspect of the technology experience at the desktop, workstation, portable, network and server level.

Enterprise Products

To meet the diverse needs of our Enterprise customers, we maintain expertise with numerous best-of-class hardware and software providers. We know that our customers want the best solution to their challenges; our partnerships allow us to build comprehensive solutions with the best tools for the job. Our customers aren’t tied to single-vendor solutions, and neither are we.

Corporate Product Partners

 

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Active Storage RAID

Technical Specifications

Unmatched Application Performance

  • RAID kernel and open controller design provide an unmatched level of fine-grain tuning and minimum overhead
  • Designed specifically for modern OS systems (Mac OS X)
  • Redundant pathing, multiple Fibre Channel ports and large caches guarantee maximum bandwidth
  • Controllers automatically balance load to provide highest throughput as user needs grow

Modern, High Availablilty

  • All components are redundant controllers, drives, and power supplies
  • Failover and failback are truly seamless
  • Native support for Mac OS X
    Multi-pathing
  • Complete support for all popular
    UPS systems
  • SNMP and CLI support for Enterprise environments
  • Automatic parity rebuild and data integrity check
  • Battery-backed cache – guaranteed 72 hour support

Management for Today and Tomorrow

  • Apple-friendly native Mac OS X management suite
  • Dashboard monitoring widget
  • iPhone monitoring App
  • Email and SMS calendar-savvy notification engine
  • Bonjour discoverable out of the box
  • Set up one or one hundred systems
    with no scripting
  • Non-disruptive software
    and firmware updates

RAID Support

  • RAID Levels – JBOD, 0, 1, 5, 6 10, 50, 51, 60
  • LUN Support – Auto-configuring for performance up to 512 LUNs
  • Drive Roaming – Full support between primary and secondary Expansion Systems
  • Redundant – True active/active operation with seamless failover and failback
  • On-Line data scrubbing with on-line parity regeneration
  • Bad Array recognition and repair
  • Sparing – Global Hot Sparing
  • Full SMART reporting

Configurations

  • 16 Drive SATA II or SAS 3GB per primary or expansion system
  • Multi-IO design RAID controller, 2GB cache per controller mirrored across bi-directional 3GB/s path
  • Primary System Features; active/active dual channel 4Gb Fibre to SAS RAID controllers 4x 4Gb/s ports, dual SAS IO, independent management/ enclosure monitoring

Statistics

  • Full per port statistics package with graphs and charts
  • Controller CPU load (percentage of idle time free)
  • Fibre Channel activity reporting
  • Fibre Bit error rate
  • Fibre average throughput (MB/s)
  • Fibre IOPS
  • Cache hit ratio statistics per LUN (Volumes)
  • Average throughput per LUN (Volumes)
  • IOPS per LUN (Volumes)
  • Average throughput per LUN (MB/s)
  • Number of stripes remapped by the controller per disk

Management and Monitoring

  • Out-of-the-box support on Mac OS X v10.5.x
  • Guided Setup assistance can be used to optimize configuration of a single system in a single location, or multiple systems in single or multiple locations
  • 128 Bit SSL security on Active Admin™ management tool
  • Support for all popular Enterprise-class SNMP Applications
  • Support for all popular UPS systems and controls
  • Automated software update service
  • On-line portal support for analysis of event log transactions
  • Calendar-savvy email and SMS Message Support for up to 24 accounts per system
  • Non-disruptive firmware upgrades
  • Remote diagnostics and service center monitoring and analysis tool
  • Drag-and-drop Configuration Tool for sophisticated and complex environments
  • Proprietary Performance Profiling for determining future requirements

System Based Monitoring

  • Front Panel – Fibre Channel activity and link per controller, drive activity and system status-RAID controller, cooling modules, system temperature, power supplies
  • Rear Panel – All modules have health and status indicators