Model: DataArk BA-900

1. Complete Technical Specifications

Chassis Configuration:

• Form Factor: 4U High-Density Storage (482×900×175mm)
• Drive Bays: 84×3.5" hot-swappable (front-accessible)
• Weight: 35kg (empty) / ≤120kg (fully loaded)
• Material: Reinforced steel frame with vibration-damping mounts

Compute Resources:

• Processors: 2×Intel Xeon Silver 4410Y (12C/24T, 2.0-3.9GHz)
• Hardware Accelerators:
  ✓ AES-NI for encryption/decryption
  ✓ T10 DIF data integrity validation
• Memory: 128GB DDR4-3200 ECC (8×16GB)
• Advanced RAS: SDDC + Patrol Scrubbing

Storage Architecture:

Data Accelerators:

• Intel QAT Cards:
  ✓ ZSTD/GZIP hardware compression (up to 50Gbps throughput)
  ✓ SHA-3 hashing at 40GB/s
• FPGA Metadata Processor:
  ✓ File fingerprinting (1M files/sec)
  ✓ Content-aware chunking

2. Software Capabilities

Core Backup Features:

• Global Deduplication:
  ✓ Variable block size (4KB-16MB adaptive)
  ✓ Average 15:1 reduction (SQL/Oracle workloads)
• Recovery Options:
  ✓ Instant VM mount (<30s for any recovery point)
  ✓ Bare-metal recovery (UEFI/Legacy BIOS support)

Enterprise-Grade Features:

• Compliance:
  ✓ WORM storage (NFSv4.2/SMB3 immutability)
  ✓ Automated audit logs (GDPR/CCPA ready)
• Cloud Tiering:
  ✓ Policy-based archiving to AWS Glacier Deep Archive
  ✓ Client-side encryption (BYOK support)

3. Resiliency Engineering

Data Protection:

• End-to-End Integrity:
  ✓ CRC-64 checksum for all I/O paths
  ✓ Silent data corruption detection (monthly full scans)
• Disaster Recovery:
  ✓ Air-gapped tape copies (weekly offline rotation)
  ✓ Geo-replicated metadata (3-site consensus)

Service Continuity:

• Non-Disruptive Operations:
  ✓ Hot-swap drive/tape replacement
  ✓ Rolling controller firmware updates
• Recovery Validation:
  ✓ Automated DR testing (quarterly simulated outages)

4. Performance Benchmarks

Backup Performance:

Restore Performance:

• Full System Recovery:
  ✓ 8TB/hour from tape (with hardware decryption)
• Granular Recovery:
  ✓ 5,000 files/second (metadata-indexed)

Scalability:

• Max Configuration:
  ✓ 1.5PB raw capacity (HDD+tape)
  ✓ 16-node scale-out cluster

5. Deployment Scenarios

Financial Services:

• Core Banking System:
  ▶ Daily incremental backups: 200TB
  ▶ 7-year retention (Basel III compliant)
• Security Measures:
  ✓ Ransomware protection: Immutable snapshots
  ✓ Tape encryption: FIPS 140-2 Level 3 validated

Healthcare Imaging:

• PACS Archiving:
  ✓ DICOM metadata indexing (fast retrieval)
  ✓ HIPAA-compliant audit trails

Special Use Cases:

• Regulatory Archives:
  ✓ SEC Rule 17a-4(f) compliance
  ✓ Legal hold management

6. Support & Services

Service Tiers:

SLA Commitments:

• Backup Window: <4 hours for 10TB full backup
• Recovery Objectives:
  ✓ RTO: <2 hours for Tier-1 systems
  ✓ RPO: <15 minutes for critical databases

Configuration Options

Integration Ecosystem

Supported Software:

• Backup Applications:
  ✓ Veritas NetBackup 10.4+
  ✓ Veeam v12 (with tape proxy)
• Cloud Platforms:
  ✓ AWS S3/Glacier
  ✓ Azure Blob Archive

Physical Archive Options:
✓ Iron Mountain offline vaulting
✓ Blockchain-based chain-of-custody