Kano Technologies Ships X-SPAND PRO and S-LINK Multilane - Single Cable, 1.6TB External SATA Storage and PCI-X Host Adapter for Mac and PC.GARDEN GROVE Garden Grove, city (1990 pop. 143,050), Orange co., S Calif., a suburb of Long Beach and Los Angeles, on the Santa Ana River; founded 1877, inc. 1956. Many of its residents work in nearby aerospace and defense installations, and there is light manufacturing. , Calif. -- Kano Technologies Corporation, a market leader in high-performance storage products for Apple Macintosh Apple Macintosh - Macintosh (R) and Windows(R) systems, broadens it's X-SPAND PRO line of serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment storage arrays with the addition of it's ground-breaking single cable (multilane mul·ti·lane adj. Having several lanes: a multilane highway. Adj. 1. multilane - (of roads and highways) having two or more lanes for traffic ), 4-channel external 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. solution. The multilane connected X-SPAND PRO is offered in two and four drive hot-swappable desktop tower configurations as well as a low-profile 1U rack mount storage array. The X-SPAND PRO uses one of the industry's first 4-channel multilane connector and shielded cable A shielded cable is an electrical cable of one or more insulated conductors enclosed by a common conductive layer. The shield may be composed of braided strands of copper (or other metal), a non-braided spiral winding of copper tape, or a layer of conducting polymer. to deliver up to 3.0Gb/sec to each SATA drive channel without performance loss. The cable features a sturdy steel connector with thumb screws which significantly improves connection reliability over existing external SATA products while simplifying cable management. The single cable solution makes the X-SPAND PRO the most convenient plug-and-play external SATA solution on the market to date. With the proven high performance throughput and hot-swap capability, the X-SPAND PRO serial ATA solution is ideal for DV/DVCAM/SD video storage as well as fast disk based (1) Refers to devices that use magnetic hard disks for storage. It often refers to portable devices such as digital music players that have hard disks rather than flash memory. All desktop and laptop computers are presumed to have hard disks, and most servers have hard disks. backup storage for small businesses. Kano Technologies is also shipping their newly developed S-LINK multilane PCI-X (PCI eXtended) An enhanced PCI bus technology originally developed by IBM, HP and Compaq that is backward compatible with existing PCI cards. PCI and 32-bit PCI-X slots are physically the same, and PCI cards can plug into PCI-X slots. serial ATA host adapter for use with the X-SPAND PRO and future multilane storage devices. The S-LINK PCI-X host adapter is one of the first of its kind to ship with a single serial ATA multilane connection with RAID 0/1/10 capability for Windows systems. Support for Macintosh OS will follow in mid-July. Robert Young, National Sales Manager, stated, "The new X-SPAND PRO multilane and S-LINK host adapter represent the first step towards simplifying SATA storage for our customers. We can now give our customers the clean, single cable external SATA solution they have been asking for." For more information about the X-SPAND PRO, S-LINK or other Kano Technologies serial ATA storage products, please refer to the Kano Technologies website at: www.kanotechnologies.com ABOUT KANO TECHNOLOGIES California-based Kano Technologies Corporation is an innovative leader in the desktop RAID and portable hard disk drive market with its SureVAULT desktop RAID, X-SPAND serial ATA storage and SureFIRE portable storage solutions for Macintosh and Windows. Kano Technologies Corporation 11522 Markon Drive Garden Grove, CA 92841 U.S.A. Telephone: (714) 379-5520 Fax: (714) 379-4541 www.kanotechnologies.com |
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