Ciprico First With New High-Performance, High-Capacity Drive Options.MINNEAPOLIS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 5, 1999-- Ciprico Inc. (Nasdaq: CPCI See CompactPCI. ) today announced new high-performance, high-capacity drive options for all high-bandwidth Fibre Channel 7000 Series and award-winning FibreSTORE Family of Disk Array storage solutions. Ciprico now offers 10,000 rpm Seagate Cheetah drives in capacities up to 36 GB for total capacities up to more than 300 GB per unit. The new high-capacity 50 GB Seagate Barracuda barracuda, slender, elongated fish of tropical seas. Barracudas have long snouts and projecting lower jaws armed with large, sharp-edged teeth. They are ferocious, striking at anything that gleams, and are considered excellent game fishes. drives (7200 rpm) are also available, bringing per-unit capacities up to more than 400 GB and single rack capacities to more than 3 terabytes. "Integrating the best drives available improves the value of our Fibre Channel products," said Ciprico Sr. Product Manager Gerry Johnsen. "We've been shipping the 36 GB drives with our products since March, and now we've made the new 50 GB drives available as well. It's not hard to see that these higher capacity drives reduce the customer's initial cost per megabyte One million bytes, or more precisely 1,048,576 bytes. Also MB, Mbyte and M-byte. See mega and space/time. (unit) megabyte - (MB, colloquially "meg") 2^20 = 1,048,576 bytes = 1024 kilobytes. 1024 megabytes are one gigabyte. and the total cost of ownership, just by virtue of a reduced number of components, physical size and power consumption for large capacity installations." The 50 GB drive configurations have been shipping since mid-July. "Our customers are saying that the larger 50 GB drives means fewer units to house, install and maintain," said Johnsen. "It's a good deal all around." To best match customers' capacity and performance requirements, Ciprico offers a wide variety of disk choices for the 7000 Series and FibreSTORE Family of Fibre Channel Disk Arrays, including 18, 36 and 50 GB 7200 rpm disks and 9 and 36 GB 10,000 rpm disks. List pricing for Ciprico's Fibre Channel storage solutions range from $18,125 to $66,125. Ciprico designs, manufactures and markets high-performance storage solutions and professional services (job) professional services - A department of a supplier providing consultancy and programming manpower for the supplier's products. for visual computing The use of computers for 3D modeling and animation. See visualization. and digital media industry leaders throughout the world. Ciprico storage solutions are designed for computing computing - computer applications requiring high-speed image capture, full image resolution playback, sustained performance and data protection. Ciprico is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota “Minneapolis” redirects here. For other uses, see Minneapolis (disambiguation). Minneapolis (pronounced IPA: /ˌmɪniˈæpəlɪs/) is the largest city in the U.S. . More information about Ciprico can be found on the World Wide Web at www.ciprico.com. Copyright (c) 1999 Ciprico - All Rights Reserved. Ciprico is a registered trademark of Ciprico Inc. Product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. |
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