Chaparral Network Storage Launches RIO eXp Serial ATA Storage Solution; Chaparral RAID Solutions Support Fibre Channel and Serial ATA Technologies.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 2003 Chaparral Network Storage, Inc., a developer of specialized appliances that deliver high-performance access to data in rich media environments, today announced availability of the newest addition to its advanced RAID storage family, the RIO eXp Storage Solution. The RIO eXp RAID Storage System, which incorporates serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment technology, is designed to reduce the complexity and risk of SAN deployment in heterogeneous, high performance environments. It is designed for the mid-range to enterprise business that requires high performance capability in its IT environment. With unprecedented seamless scalability from 4TB to 62TB, a single management GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. , fully fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. controller with hot swappable See hot swap. components, and user selectable RAID configurations, the RIO eXp offers an enterprise class industry benchmark for high bandwidth applications such as video retention storage and geophysical image collection. "Today's disk drive technology offers the potential of tremendous storage capacities. To effectively manage these larger storage capacities, the RIO eXp offers the ability to partition disk arrays into multiple, variable size disk partitions See partition. . These capabilities, coupled with RIO eXp's high performance, offer a storage solution with enterprise class features at an affordable price point," said Ron Macleod, UK sales director for Chaparral. A key advantage of the RIO eXp Storage Subsystem The part of a computer system that provides the storage. It includes the controller and disk drives. See storage system. architecture in the SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. environment is its flexible IO design; RIO eXp is agnostic to the backend drive technology. Upcoming releases will support FC and SATA drives in the same storage system to provide complete primary and secondary storage in a single storage solution. Chaparral is deploying true, native serial ATA drives in the RIO eXp product, bypassing the parallel ATA See PATA. drive implementation that most other vendors offer. This is believed to be the highest protection available in any ATA (1) (AT Attachment) The specification for IDE drives. See IDE. (2) See analog telephone adapter. ATA - Advanced Technology Attachment system on the market today. "The introduction of the RIO eXp demonstrates our ongoing commitment to deliver market leading solutions to our customers and partners," stated Cooper Cowart, vice president of marketing at Chaparral. "The RIO eXp leads the way in enterprise-class disk storage solutions by providing unparalleled performance today, with an upgrade path for future expansion including the full integration of serial ATA and fibre channel into a single subsystem." The RIVA Storage Solution is available from Chaparral distributors, system integrators and value-added resellers. The RIO eXp configurations will store 4TB - 32TB for a RIO eXp R3200 and 16TB - 62TB for a RIO eXp R3400. About Chaparral (www.chaparralnet.com) Chaparral Network Storage, Inc. designs and markets storage appliances that provide simple solutions to common storage networking problems. Chaparral specializes in advanced performance devices that deliver data efficiently within the network and sells protocol bridges, data routers, RAID controllers and disk array appliances that are network ready. Chaparral's storage networking appliances feature 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 FC connectivity, easy device configuration and management tools, and tested interoperability with leading SAN products and storage resource management software. Chaparral's family of 2Gb/s Fibre Channel appliances allows any system administrator to build high performance storage networks on a manageable budget. Chaparral's solutions are available through select storage OEMs, resellers, and distributors worldwide. |
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