RAIDCore Certifies Maxtor MaXLine Serial ATA Hard Drives for Use with RC4000 Series Controllers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers NASHUA, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 17, 2003 Powerful and Affordable Combination of Storage Technologies Brings Enterprise-Class Performance, Features to Broader Audience RAIDCore, Inc., a leader in data integrity and data access performance, announced today that it certified Maxtor(R) MaXLine(TM) Serial ATA See SATA. Serial ATA - Serial Advanced Technology Attachment (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. ) hard drives for use with RAIDCore's RC4000 Series controllers. In November, RAIDCore, Inc., maker of affordable enterprise-class RAID solutions, introduced the RC4000 Series RAID controllers, the market's first low-profile, four and eight-channel, 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. compliant SATA RAID solution. Powered by RAIDCore's Fulcrum fulcrum: see lever. Architecture(TM), these products provide high-end features such as online capacity expansion (OCE See AOCE. ), online RAID level migration (ORLM), split mirroring, controller spanning, and all the popular RAID levels such as RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, and 50. The RC4000 Series controllers coupled with high-capacity Maxtor MaXLine SATA drives feature the industry's best price/performance available today. Tested with eight 250GB MaXLine SATA drives totaling 2 terabytes (TB), the combination performed RAID 5 reads at 392 Mb/s, more than twice the speed of the nearest competitor RAID controller. With 16 MaXLine drives, the combination is capable of RAID 5 reads at 836 Mb/s and, in addition to this leadership performance, outstanding capacity expansion up to 32 drives is achievable with four 8-channel RC4852 controllers. This high-capacity, high-performance and affordable cost make MaXLine-driven RC4000 RAID solutions an ideal choice for resellers and OEMs looking to extend enterprise-class RAID capabilities to their small- to mid-sized business customers. "MaXLine drives and RC4000 is the perfect combination for small businesses looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a storage solution that can grow with them," said Tom Marmen, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of RAIDCore. "Our OCE and ORLM capabilities are just one example of this ability, allowing businesses to simply add drives or upgrade their RAID configuration without bringing the system down. And when the drives they're adding are manufactured by Maxtor, businesses have the added assurance of using a trusted brand known for performance and quality." "Serial ATA drives, like our high-capacity MaXLine drives, already have a great deal of appeal to SMBs because of their performance, reliability and cost benefits. Combine that with enterprise-class RAID features and you have a great storage solution for growing businesses and enterprises alike," said Mike Williams Mike Williams may refer to:
Maxtor MaXLine drives provide a durable platform for system development. With up to 250GB in the Serial ATA version, these drives offer a high mean-time-to-failure (MTTF See reliability. ) hours rating and low cost per GB. MaXLine drives are ideal for applications that require vast amounts of storage space such as video security, post-production editing, multimedia/graphics and medical imaging. Maxtor's SATA drives offer higher data transfer rates, a more reliable connection, simpler RAID integration and faster HDD (Hard Disk Drive) See hard disk and HDD caddy. HDD - hard disk drive installation than parallel ATA See PATA. drives. Maxtor SATA drives also offer hot-plug compatibility and allow for smaller system designs. RAIDCore's RAID controllers and Maxtor's MaXLine drives are shipping today to major OEMs and channel partners around the world. For more information, please visit Maxtor at http://www.maxtor.com or RAIDCore at http://www.raidcore.com. About RAIDCore, Inc. RAIDCore, Inc. develops the first and only truly hardware- and operating system-independent RAID storage technology, providing businesses with enterprise-level data storage capabilities and features without the complexity and cost typically associated with high-end RAID solutions. Based in Nashua, NH, RAIDCore is led by a management team with more than 150 years of combined data storage experience. The company provides businesses with RAID products based on RAIDCore's patent-pending Fulcrum Architecture(TM) that enable fast, secure and reliable storage. RAIDCore serves OEMs, storage vendors and other businesses throughout the world. NOTE: Maxtor is a registered trademark and MaXLine is a trademark of Maxtor Corporation. For disk drive storage capacities, TB means 1 trillion bytes and GB means 1 billion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment In computing, an operating environment is the environment in which users run programs, whether in a command line interface, such as in MS-DOS or the Unix shell, or in a graphical user interface, such as in the Macintosh operating system. . MaXLine drives are rated to exceed 1 million hours MTTF for mid-line, near-line and other secondary storage applications. |
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