While SuperSpeed USB 3.0 and eSATA drives can provide enough bandwidth for most consumers needs, small and medium businesses need faster storage solutions, Dot Hill developing the AssuredSAN 3400 series that can deliver 10Gb/second transfer speeds thanks to its iSCSI interface.

Built specially for customers that need a fast storage solution for rich media post-production, video streaming, high performance computing (HPC) applications, and applications running on virtual servers, the new AssuredSAN 3420 and 3430 storage arrays can support up to 144, SAS or SATA 2.5 inch and 3.5 inch drives while also offering RAID 0, 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 50 support.

"The AssuredSAN 3400 Series makes 10Gb iSCSI storage solutions a reality for our channel partners and their SMB customers for the first time," said David Zimmer, vice president of worldwide channel sales and marketing, Dot Hill.

"Our resellers and customers continue to look to Dot Hill to deliver the latest technology at affordable price points and the AssuredSAN 3400 line is ideal for solution providers interested in offering storage solutions that are on the leading edge of technical innovation."

The Dot Hill AssuredSAN 3400 Series will be available sometime in October, list prices starting at $18,970 for Dot Hill branded 2U storage systems (OEM versions will be also available) with dual controllers while the drives will be sold separately.