3ware Delivers Terabytes of Reliable, Performance-based ATA RAID Storage with New 12-Port Controllers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3ware's Escalade es·ca·lade n. The act of scaling a fortified wall or rampart. [French, from Italian scalata, ultimately from Latin sc 7500-12 ATA RAID Using ATA (IDE) drives in a high-performance and/or fault tolerant configuration. See RAID. controller rivals SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. capacity and performance using standard ATA/133 drives 3ware(R), Inc., a leading provider of switched RAID solutions, today announced the latest entry in its popular series of ATA RAID controller cards-the Escalade(TM) 7500-12. With the ability to attach up to 12 inexpensive ATA drives on a single RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. , it is the only ATA RAID solution that can match the storage capacity and performance levels of a SCSI controller A common term for a SCSI host adapter. See SCSI. SCSI controller - SCSI adaptor for applications that require terabytes of reliable storage. The Escalade series of RAID controllers continues to be the most cost-effective and dependable solution for today's large-scale applications such as e-mail servers, Web farms, digital video and storage subsystems. The Escalade 7500-12 card enables customers to deliver almost two terabytes of fault tolerant data storage at a quarter of the price of a comparable SCSI system(1). "Companies are struggling to keep pace with storage demands. And because today's RAID systems are consuming a significant portion of IT budgets, companies are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. more innovative, cost-efficient storage solutions," said Mike Wentz, senior director of product marketing at 3ware. "Until now, this market could only be serviced by SCSI technology. For the first time in the industry, our Escalade family of controllers brings ATA-based high-end RAID reliability, capacity and performance to IT departments at a fraction of the cost of SCSI." 3ware's StorSwitch(TM) architecture applies network packet switching principles to storage, giving each drive its own dedicated port and cable. This reduces the need for expensive on-board cache, eliminates shared-bus arbitration and dramatically decreases host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. loading. The result is improved I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output throughput, complete fault isolation and an optimized hardware platform for 3ware's innovative firmware, which further enhances the system's RAID 5 features and performance. In addition to the Escalade 7500-12, 3ware offers a complete suite of software to configure, verify, rebuild and delete arrays, making installation and setup easy. 3DM(TM), 3ware's web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. based array management utility, allows local and remote management and monitoring of arrays and their disks. The newest Version 7.5 software adds advanced features including 2 levels of administrator access for added security. In addition, the Escalade software also solves the power-on surge problems of high-density drive arrays by staggering the spin-up of individual drives(2). This dampens power surges, minimizes the risk of boot problems, eliminates excessive wear and tear on the power supply and reduces the need for large, expensive power supplies. The SCSI specification includes features that deliver higher performance and reliability levels than normally provided by standard ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment controller and drive. 3ware has closed the gap between SCSI and ATA RAID by incorporating these features into the RAID controller. The Escalade 7500-12 SCSI feature set includes tag command queuing, scatter/gather, command re-ordering, parallel seek, dynamic sector repair and more. Combined with 3ware's switched architecture, the result is a RAID controller that matches the reliability and performance of SCSI at a fraction of the cost. Availability and Pricing The 3ware 7500-12 ATA RAID controller card is available now through distribution at an MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) of $699. Please contact 1-877-88-3ware (9273) for additional information or visit 3ware on the Web at www.3ware.com. About 3ware, Inc. Founded in 1997, 3ware, Inc., the technology leader in switched storage solutions, delivers reliable, scalable, network-managed, high-performance storage. 3ware products are based on 3ware's StorSwitch architecture, which applies network packet switching to storage controllers. 3ware solutions are designed to meet the explosive new demand for cost-effective, scalable storage, driven by enterprise networking applications. 3ware sells through VARs, OEMs and System Integrators. 3ware, Inc. is located in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. with sales offices and distribution in the USA, Europe and Japan. 3ware is on the Web at http://www.3ware.com. (1) 160GB Maxtor ATA $220 vs. Seagate 180GB SCSI $999 (2) Available on drives that support the feature. Copyright 2002 3ware, Inc. All rights reserved. Specifications subject to change without notice. 3ware is a registered trademark and Escalade and StorSwitch are trademarks of 3ware, Inc. All other trademarks herein are the property of their respective owners. |
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