American Megatrends Inc. Renames IDE RAID Controller; Enhances MegaRAID Line.Business Editors & Technology Writers ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 13, 2000
Editorial Summary
-- AMI's extensive MegaRAID(R) family of RAID controllers is enhanced
with IDE RAID
-- The MegaRAID series includes the Enterprise, Elite, Explorer,
Express and IDE controllers
American Megatrends American Megatrends Incorporated (AMI) is a Georgia, USA based hardware company that creates PC hardware and firmware. It was founded in 1985 by the current chairman and president, S. Shankar. Inc. (AMI), the leader in storage and computing innovations worldwide, today announced its line of ATA/100 and ATA/66 IDE RAID Using ATA (IDE) drives in a RAID configuration. See RAID. controllers has joined its MegaRAID(R) family as the MegaRAID IDE66 and MegaRAID IDE100. In a strategic move to bring all its RAID products under the brand name MegaRAID, AMI has renamed its IDE RAID line as MegaRAID IDE. The addition of this new series allows AMI to provide the industry with the most extensive family of 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. products that allows customers to choose RAID products tailored to their specific data needs and demands, from low-cost low-end IDE controllers (1) The controlling electronics built into an IDE drive. See IDE. (2) The adapter on the plug-in card or motherboard that connects to the IDE controller. This is technically the IDE host adapter, but is often called the IDE controller. See IDE. to enterprise-wide 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. and Fibre solutions. "Adding IDE RAID to our MegaRAID line enhances our ability to bring RAID at any level to market," said Siamak Iranpour, AMI director of RAID sales. "Our family of advanced MegaRAID products, extensive engineering experience and technical support position us now more than ever to meet the most specific needs and demands of new and existing customers in OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and and channel markets." The MegaRAID IDE100 provides excellent drive performance and data redundancy Writing data to two or more locations for backup and data recovery. For example, data can be stored on two or more disks or disk and tape or disk and the Internet. See disk redundancy and data recovery. . In most cases, the performance gains achieved by the addition of the MegaRAID IDE100 with an additional drive dramatically surpass those seen with an upgrade in processor and increased memory. The MegaRAID IDE100 features data striping See disk striping. (storage) data striping - Segmentation of logically sequential data, such as a single file, so that segments can be written to multiple physical devices (usually disk drives) in a round-robin fashion. (RAID 0), mirroring (RAID 1) and a combination of both (RAID 10), which makes the entire solution an important tool in today's computing environment. These RAID levels provide users with a better application performance every time a file is saved or retrieved and offers greater economy and longevity for nearly every PC made today. The MegaRAID family also includes the Enterprise, Elite, Explorer and Express lines of RAID controllers:
-- Enterprise Series: high-end enterprise-level RAID controllers
that feature multi-channel PCI RAID solutions for dual, quad and
eight-way servers. Primarily three and four channel Ultra160 and
Ultra2 SCSI controllers.
-- Elite Series: mid-range controllers for mid-range servers that
consist of two channel PCI controllers for dual, quad and 8-way
processor servers and target ISPs (Internet Service Providers),
workgroups and departmental servers.
-- Explorer Series: OS independent, external RAID controllers for
flexible storage subsystems.
-- Express Series: high speed, low-cost PCI RAID controllers.
Includes zero channel controllers that convert a server
motherboard's own SCSI channels into high-performance RAID
channels and single channel LVD solutions with up to 100 MHz I/O
processors.
With its engineering expertise in BIOS, RAID, motherboard design, diagnostic and management software utilities, AMI has the capability and infrastructure in place to design and build the industry's most feature-rich RAID controllers that offer the highest levels of performance, availability and manageability. About AMI Founded in 1985, American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) has dedicated its resources to providing OEMs, resellers and systems integrators with leading edge computer technologies. This privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , best known for its Basic Input/Output Systems (operating system) Basic Input/Output System - (BIOS, ROM BIOS) The part of the system software of the IBM PC and compatibles that provides the lowest level interface to peripheral devices and controls the first stage of the bootstrap process, including installing the operating or BIOS, also supplies its state-of-the-art hardware, software, utilities and RAID controllers to over 55 percent of today's high-tech manufacturers. Headquartered in Atlanta, AMI has locations in the U.S. and throughout the world including London, Madras Madras. 1 State and former province, India: see Tamil Nadu. 2 City, India: see Chennai. , Munich, Seoul, Taipei and Tokyo to better serve our customers. For more information on AMI, its products, services or reseller opportunities call 1-800-U-BUY-AMI or visit our web site at www.ami.com. |
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