DPT 3-Bay RAIDstation Now Available In Ultra Wide SCSI; Lowest Cost Intelligent 3-Bay Mini-tower With Ultra Wide Performance.MAITLAND, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 29, 1997--Distributed Processing Technology(r)(DPT), a leading supplier of high-performance 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 RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) solutions for servers and workstations, today announced that it has begun shipping the Ultra Wide SCSI-3 3-bay RAIDstation mini-tower to its distribution partners worldwide. The RAIDstation includes three hot-swappable hard drive carriers which are compatible with leading Ultra Wide SCSI-3 (and Wide SCSI-2) hard disk drives (purchased separately). The RAIDstation Ultra Wide cabinet is available separately at a list price of $1,295.00 (DPT-RS3W), or in a "RAID-ready" kit that includes a PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). to Ultra Wide SCSI A SCSI interface that transfers 16 bits in parallel rather than 8 bits. See SCSI. (hardware, standard) Wide SCSI - A variant on the SCSI-2 interface. It uses a 16-bit bus - double the width of the original SCSI-1 - and therefore cannot be connected to a SCSI-1 bus. hardware RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. . The high performance RAIDstation kit includes the Ultra Wide cabinet and the SmartCache IV PM2144UW RAID controller with 4MB of cache at a list price of $1,959.00 (DPT-RS3W/UR). The RAIDstation Ultra Wide cabinet can also be integrated with DPT's SmartRAID IV PM3334UW PCI to Ultra Wide SCSI-3 hardware RAID controller for the greatest possible performance. The PM3334UW is available separately in one, two, and three channel models beginning at a list price of $1,495.00. The new DPT-RS3W is ideal for POS (1) See point of sale and packet over SONET. (2) "Parent over shoulder." See digispeak. POS - point of sale , small servers or graphics workstations, providing integrators and endusers with a low cost yet high performance solution incorporating high-speed Ultra Wide SCSI technology. The metal cabinet includes LEDs to indicate power, drive activity, drive failure and temperature of the RAID cabinet. When used with the bundled DPT RAID controller, the cabinet and device status are accessible to DPT's Storage Manager utility for logging and alert notification. Users can also configure RAID level 0,1, and 5 arrays. The three hot swap To pull out a component from a system and plug in a new one while the main power is still on. Also called "hot plug" and "hot insertion," hot swap is a feature of USB devices, allowing an external drive, network adapter or other peripheral to be plugged in without having to power down the hard drive carriers allow the removal and replacement of failed drives without taking the system down, and the hot spare support includes automatic or scheduled rebuild of the array. The RAIDstation kits include support for multiple operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , up to 64MB of 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. or industry-standard cache, firmware-based diagnostics and dynamic sector repair, user-tunable cache and striping Interleaving or multiplexing data to increase speed. See disk striping. striping - data striping parameters, and flash EPROM for easy controller upgrades. Also available is the currently shipping Ultra Narrow SCSI 3-bay RAIDstation at a list price of $1,095.00 (DPT-RS3). The Ultra Narrow RAIDstation is also available in a "RAID-ready" kit which includes the SmartCache IV PM2044U Ultra Narrow RAID controller and 4MB SIMM at a list price of $1,645.00 (DPT-RS3/UR). DPT is a leading supplier of high-performance SCSI adapters and RAID controllers, RAID subsystem products and storage management software for servers and workstations. All DPT products are manufactured in the USA and are sold worldwide in more than 100 countries through a network of distributors and OEMs. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. , founded in 1977, is headquartered in Maitland, Florida. The DPT internet web site address is http://www.dpt.com . -0- Editors Note: For slides or spec sheets of DPT products, contact Marketing at 407/830-5522, extension 215. Downloadable photos/ images are available via the DPT Electronic Media Kit on the Businesswire home page ( http://www.businesswire.com/emk/dpt.shtml ). DPT, SmartCache and SmartRAID are registered trademarks of Distributed Processing Technology Corporation. All other trademarks are the sole property of their respective owners. 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By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Manager 407/830-5522 Ext. 420, Internet: white_vicki@dpt.com Robert Mohs, Technical Marketing Manager 407/830-5522, Ext. 311, Internet: mohs_robert@dpt.com |
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