JMR's Fortra FR10 and Fortra FT10 Compatible With Chaparral RAID Bridge Controllers.JMR JMR Journal of Magnetic Resonance JMR Journal of Marine Research JMR Jason Microwave Radiometer JMR Joint Movement Request (US Army transportation) JMR Junk E-Mail Reporting (Microsoft program) Electronics, Inc. announced the availability of "Plug & Play" RAID-ready disk drive enclosures that are compatible with the product offerings from Chaparral Technologies. The Fortra FRl0 and Fortra FT10 ten-disk drive RAID subsystem enclosures provide power and cooling, a SAF-TE SAF-TE SCSI Access Fault-Tolerant Enclosure controller and interface for environmental monitoring, ten hot-swappable 1.6-inch disk drive canisters, and controller canisters for four different Chaparral RAID bridge controllers, both Fibre Channel to 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 SCSI to SCSI versions. Fortra began production shipments in March this year as a JBOD (Just a Bunch Of Disks) A group of hard disks in a computer that are not set up as any type of RAID configuration. They are just a bunch of disks. JBOD - Just a Bunch Of Disks product or RAID, if used with a host-based controller. "Now, we are shipping [the subsystem enclosures] that are 'plug and play' for systems integrators, VARs, and QEMs," said Steve Katz, vice president of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and sales at JMR. "The Chaparral G5312, G7313, K5312, and K7313 RAID controllers install in removable modules along with their (cache) backup battery packs and 'plug in' to the [enclosure] without the need to remove any covers or install any cables in our product. This not only simplifies and accelerates integration time, but [it also] provides a minimum number of point of failures. The [new] products employ no cabling anywhere in the data or power buses. The RAID controller plugs into a custom riser card [that] we provide with the product and that interfaces with our main I/O or 'personality' card, which is a single-board interface between the drive backplane and the host computer or storage expansion unit." Fortra FR10-LS21-2SH1, compatible with the Chaparral G5312, has a MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) of $4,590. |
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