American Megatrends Ships the MegaRAIDR Enterprise 1500 High Performance RAID Controller; Enterprise-Class RAID Controller Reaches 210 MB/sec. Throughput.ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 7, 1999-- Editorial Summary -- The Enterprise 1500 offers fast data throughput and superior stability for enterprise-class servers. -- AMI's MegaRAID is the first true 64-bit PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). RAID controller to offer NT clustering for fault tolerance as a standard feature. -- With its advanced management and configuration utilities, the Enterprise 1500 is engineered to be the industry's most feature-rich RAID controller. American Megatrends Inc. (AMI), the leader in supplying RAID technology to the 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 server and storage marketplace, today released the MegaRAID(R) Enterprise 1500, a high performance 64-bit PCI Ultra2 LVD See LVDS. LVD - Low Voltage Differential 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. RAID controller for enterprise-class servers. The advanced RAID controller features the Intel(R)i960(R)RN processor with a 100 MHz internal JX core. Surrounded completely by 64-bit architecture, along with four Ultra2 SCSI channels, the Enterprise 1500 reaches sustained sequential throughput of 210 MB/sec. and a random I/O rate of more than 8,000 I/Os per second. For the highest level of fault tolerance available today, the Enterprise 1500 also comes with Microsoft(R) MSCS See Microsoft Cluster Server. (TM) certified clustering technology as a standard feature. Utilizing the clustering technology, the Enterprise 1500 offers network administrators nearly 100 percent uptime in NT environments. The controller also features advanced management and configuration utilities, including: -- WebBIOS(TM), a revolutionary RAID utility that features a browser-user interface (BUI)-based, OS independent configuration utility at the BIOS level; -- FlexRAID(R), AMI's unmatched utility for on-line capacity expansion and RAID level migration; -- Power Console Plus(TM), an advanced application under Windows(R) NT which creates and manages multiple disk arrays and controls and monitors multiple RAID servers; and -- MegaManager(TM) an on-line management utility, similar to Power Console Plus, that supports SCO Unix, NetWare, Linux and Solaris operating systems. The Enterprise 1500 is the only 64-bit PCI RAID controller that offers a manufacturing upgrade path to support Ultra 160M SCSI with a data transfer rate of 160 MB/sec. per SCSI channel. The controller also supports up to 128 MB cache using a single, industry standard ECC (1) (Error-Correcting Code) A type of memory that corrects errors on the fly. See ECC memory. (2) (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) A public key cryptography method that provides fast decryption and digital signature processing. SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module with on-board battery backup for fault tolerant cache memory support. "With the advanced features and superior stability that the MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 offers, AMI will be able to continue its long history of flexibility and availability in the RAID arena," said Elaine Morris, Product Manager for the Enterprise 1500 at AMI. The state-of-the-art controller supports up to 15 devices per channel and RAID levels of 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50 and JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks . All Major operating systems are supported, including Novell(R) NetWare, Windows NT(TM)/2000, SCO(R)UNIX(R), UNIXWare(R), DOS, Linux, Solaris and OS/2 Warp. 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 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 Munich, London, Taipei, Madras, Seoul 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 website at www.ami.com. |
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