CMD Technology Introduces the CRA-7280 RAID Controller, the First Member of its New CMD Titan Family; Available This Summer.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- March 16, 1999--CMD Technology Inc. (www.cmd.com), a recognized leader in advanced RAID controller technology, Tuesday announced its new CRA-7280 Fibre Channel/Ultra2 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. The first member of CMD's Titan(tm) 7000 family, the CRA-7280 is based on the flexible, powerful Titan hardware/firmware platform. It offers significant performance and feature enhancements; maximizes the full potential of emerging high-speed interfaces; satisfies the needs of high bandwidth and 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 demanding applications; and allows OEMs to customize its appearance. The new Fibre Channel RAID controller is a key component in implementing storage area networks (SANs). CMD will show the CRA-7280 in public for the first time March 18-24, at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. "Titan architecture products offer industry leading I/O performance with an end-to-end design tailored to today's high-speed interfaces. As a relative measure, the CRA-7280 offers over four times the performance of currently shipping CMD RAID products, already viewed as good performers in the marketplace," said Stephen T. Ferrari, CMD product marketing manager. "The CMD Titan architecture is the foundation for a variety of new RAID products, providing excellent levels of data availability, performance, data integrity and the most comprehensive feature set in the industry." The CRA-7280 has all of the Titan family features including critical component/data path redundancy; an advanced hot-pluggable redundant controller design; a 233 MHz RISC processor; support for Fibre Channel and Ultra2 SCSI interfaces; expandability to new interfaces such as Ultra3 SCSI and 160m; dual redundant active/active configurations; CMD's AutoRebind(tm) fail-back feature; a failure tolerant design managed by new CMD custom ASICs; and support for SAF-TE SAF-TE SCSI Access Fault-Tolerant Enclosure and SES enclosure management protocols. Features specific to the CRA-7280 include an advanced fault-tolerant implementation; dual 100 MB per second Fibre Channel host interfaces; built-in hub functionality; eight 80 MB per second LVD Ultra2 SCSI disk interfaces; redundant hot-pluggable power supplies, fans and controllers; support for up to 112 disk drives; support for up to 1 GB of high-speed 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 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. cache; advanced power and media management; and an easy-to-customize appearance designed with OEMs in mind. CMD Technology supplies leading-edge peripheral-storage controller technology and high-performance semiconductor products to OEMs, VARs, integrators and resellers. CMD is a worldwide leader in RAID peripheral controller solutions for the 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). , Open Systems and PC marketplaces, and a leading supplier of IDE, Ultra ATA and Universal Serial Bus See USB. (hardware, standard) Universal Serial Bus - (USB) An external peripheral interface standard for communication between a computer and external peripherals over an inexpensive cable using biserial transmission. (USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. ) semiconductors for some of the world's finest computer systems. For more information, contact CMD Technology Inc., Storage Products, 19 Morgan, Irvine, Calif. 92618; tel: 949/454-0800; fax: 949/699-3268; email: info@cmd.com; and/or Web site: www.cmd.com. Note to Editors: AutoRebind is a trademark of CMD Technology. All other brand names and trademarks are properties of their respective owners. |
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