Huawei Symantec OceanSpace S5000 vs Nexsan BEAST comparison

The S5000 is designed for the mid-range and high-end storage markets with features such as high density, FC and iSCSI connectivity, modular ports, and multi-level data protection mechanism. It ensures data integrity and service continuity while meeting the requirements of large databases, high performance computing, online transaction processing (OLTP), centralized storage, data migration, data backup, and disaster recovery.

Nexsan SASBeast is a high-capacity, high-performance, enterprise-class storage array system ideal for transactional applications that demand high I/O per second. With its storage density of 25.2TB offered in a 4U configuration, SASBeast has the ability to scale to hundreds of terabytes of capacity in a single rack. With 42 high-speed SAS drives, it's optimized for customers whose infrastructures support Microsoft Exchange, Oracle, SQL and other databases, as well as those that involve large file servers, virtual server environments or large amounts of small files. Equally important, SASBeast includes FC and iSCSI connectivity and allows customers to combine SAS, SSD and SATA drives within the same system to address different application requirements.