The Sun StorEdge A5000 is the first intelligent storage network product in a new product family from Sun. Using second generation Fiber Channel technology and offering high reliability, availability, and serviceability (RAS) features, the Sun StorEdge A5000 is scalable from the desktop to the datacenter offering higher performance than any other product in its class.Designed for capacity, performance, reliability, availability, and serviceability, the Sun StorEdge A5000 meets the mass storage needs of users in a numbers of disciplines: on-line transaction processing (OLTP), data warehousing, decision support, seismic analysis, video production, mechanical design (MCAD), web service, network file service, imaging. Able to deliver high performance and high RAS at low cost, the Sun StorEdge A5000 is a scalable architecture that is ideal for cost-sensitive or volume applications where fast data access is required. With both tabletop and cabinet configurations, the Sun StorEdge A5000 is a flexible mass storage subsystem that supports departmental, datacenter, and clustering environments with ease.