BiTMicro Unveils World's First and Fastest Flash-Based Fast Wide SCSI E-Disk SFW35 Solid State Disk.FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 12, 1999-- Record-Breaking Flash Storage Solution Delivers Unmatched Performance and Easy Integration Required for Today's Storage Networking Demands BiT Microsystems, Inc. today announced the availability of E-Disk(TM) SFW SFW Science Fiction Weekly SFW Safe for Work (website links) SFW Solaris Freeware (open source software delivered in Solaris and supported by Sun) SFW Sensor Fuzed Weapon SFW Suitable for Work 35 -- the world's first, fastest, and largest capacity Fast Wide SCSI solid state flash disk. Built on proven BiTMicro's proprietary FlashBus(TM) technology, E-Disk SFW35 delivers 20 MBytes/sec burst read and write transfer rates, over 18 MBytes/sec sustained read and write transfer rates, and less than 0.35 ms system access time. E-Disk SFW35 storage capacities range from 128 MBytes to an unprecedented 9728 MBytes in 3.5" form factor. The enhanced SFW35 Fast Wide SCSI is the newest addition to BiTMicro's E-Disk product line that doubles the performance of the previous SFX35 Fast SCSI, and quadruples the earlier SNX35 Normal 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. predecessors. The sustained read and write transfer rates of SFW35 are over 9 times faster than the closest competitors. The earlier SFX35 and SNX35 predecessors have undergone a number of extensive product qualifications worldwide across Windows, MacOS, and various UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). platforms including SunOS, IRIX A Unix-based operating system from SGI that is used in its computer systems from desktop to supercomputer. It is an enhanced version of Unix System V Release 4. IRIX integrates the X Window system with OpenGL, creating the first real time 3D X environment. , Linux, *BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) The software distribution facility of the Computer Systems Research Group (CSRG) of the University of California at Berkeley. , IRIX, OS/2, AIX, SCO, OSF1, and CP/M (Control Program for Microprocessors) A single user operating system for the 8080 and Z80 microprocessors from Caldera, known since 2002 as The SCO Group. Created by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, CP/M had its heyday in the early 1980s. . The results are very encouraging based on the responses and product approvals received from customers representing different industries including telecommunication, financial trading, OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , Internet, e-commerce, servers, multimedia, video-on-demand, film, video, and audio editing, transportation, aerospace, industrial, government, and military applications. The excitement over BiTMicro's E-Disk high performance products is reflected in the following comment: "My organization heard about you through the Oracle Partner Program in Australia. We have got a bunch of ISP's who want really fast and reliable proxy servers. Seems to me a FreeBSD box running squid would really fly on E-Disk(s)! It also means that we don't need to worry about lots of disks and a RAID controller either. There are a very limited number of RAID controllers that work with FreeBSD. ISP's are always looking for better solutions," said Troy Adkins, managing director of AIMS Independent Computer Professionals. The high performance E-Disk SFW35 is also BiTMicro's introductory entry into the burgeoning Network Attached Storage (NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular ) market. SFW35 is well suited in mission critical storage applications that require high system uptime, high input/ouput (I/O) rate, and high sustained reads and writes. SFW35 is also the favored storage solution for applications operating in harsh environment of extreme temperature, shock, and vibration. "The move to keep supplying the market with the world's fastest E-Disk products parallels our commitment to providing the most advanced technologies needed for today's e-commerce, networking and telecommunication market. We will widen our technological advantage by introducing a leading edge line of E-Disk products and position BiTMicro in the industry as the best Flash Disk and Enterprise Storage Company in the world," declared Dr. R. H. Bruce, president of BiT Microsystems, Inc. About BiT Microsystems BiT Microsystems, Inc. is a Fremont based company that designs, manufactures, and markets flash solid state storage solutions using its patented FlashBus technology. BiTMicro is a member of Fibre Channel Association (FCA FCA Abbreviation for the Free Carrier ) and Storage Networking Industry Association An association of producers and consumers of storage networking products, whose goal is to further storage networking technology and applications. The Storage Networking Industry Association, or SNIA (SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association, San Francisco, CA, www.snia.org) An organization devoted to the advancement of mission critical storage systems. Founded in 1997, its goal is to determine the standards that must be developed to allow hosts and storage systems to interact via ). For further information, call 510/623-2341 or e-mail info@bitmicro.com, or visit BiTMicro's web site at http://www.bitmicro.com. Note to Editors: E-Disk(TM), FlashBus(TM) and BiTMicro(TM) are trademarks of BiT Microsystems, Inc. Products mentioned are for identification purposes only and may be trademarks of their respective companies or from other countries. In the product name "*BSD" noted in fourth paragraph of this news release, there is an asterisk symbol before "BSD." This symbol may not appear properly in some systems. |
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