SGI's EBOD products provide flexible, reliable and cost-effective external storage expansion for a wide range of performance and capacity-oriented storage environments. EBOD arrays provide SAS-based host connectivity with the ability to scale capacity by simply daisy chaining multiple systems, making them configurable for a wide range of storage applications, including:

• Host server expansion storage
• Cost effective disk-based backup
• High-capacity archival storage
• Entry-level to mid-tier database server storage