Ciprico Announces Availability of 73 GB Drives with 7000 Series Fibre Channel RAID Disk Arrays.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 29, 2000 Ciprico Inc. (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : CPCI See CompactPCI. ) today announced the availability of Seagate 73 GB drives with the 7000 Series Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays, increasing total storage capacity to 587 GB per unit. Ciprico is the first Fibre Channel storage solution provider to have products available with this new technology, once again proving its leadership in the industry. "The addition of 73 GB drives to our Fibre Channel products will offer our customers greater storage capacity in one unit, lowering their total cost per MB," explained Stacy Kelly, Ciprico Product Manager. "Our strategic partnership and long standing relationship with Seagate allowed us to be first to market with 50 GB drives, and we expect continued success with the 73 GB option." The 7000 Series, Ciprico's fourth generation disk array, was the industry's first RAID to offer a full speed Fibre Channel interface. It now offers up to 587 GB capacity and sustained data transfer rates of up to 100 MB/second. The 7000 Series comes with a set of redundancy features ideal for use in any high-bandwidth, real-time 1. real-time - Describes an application which requires a program to respond to stimuli within some small upper limit of response time (typically milli- or microseconds). Process control at a chemical plant is the classic example. environment. To protect against drive problems, the array will continue to operate after any single drive failure - with no loss in performance. Replacement of any redundant component, such as a disk drive, power supply or fan, can be performed while the array remains running. The 7000's Fibre Channel interface has tremendous flexibility and supports both optical and copper host connections. The 7000 is SAN ready by supporting Fibre Channel's Arbitrated Loop A ring topology used in Fibre Channel. Up to 127 devices may be attached in the loop, but only two can communicate at the same time, reflecting the channel nature of Fibre Channel technology. and switched fabric topologies. Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance direct-attached and networked storage solutions, including intelligent disk array hardware, software and services. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for visual computing The use of computers for 3D modeling and animation. See visualization. applications ranging from high-speed image data capture, through processing and analysis, to real-time playback Playback could mean:
For further information on the 7000 Series RAID Disk Arrays please contact: Stacy Kelly Product Manager (763) 551-4046 skelly Skel´ly v. i. 1. To squint. n. 1. A squint. @ciprico.com Bill Hartman William Coleman "Bill" Hartman (born March 17, 1915 - died March 16, 2006) was an American football running back for both the Georgia Bulldogs Football and Washington Redskins before World War II. He graduated from the University of Georgia in 1937 with a B.S. V.P. Marketing and Business Development (763) 551-4100 bhartman@ciprico.com |
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