Zzyzx Expands Its High-Performance RAID Storage Line With RocketRAID MAX.Business Editors SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 25, 2000 Zzyzx Peripherals Inc. today announced the expansion of its leading edge RAID storage product offering with the immediate availability of the RocketRAID MAX. The RocketRAID MAX is a new and improved Ultra2 SCSI See Ultra SCSI. interfaced RAID array featuring a new state-of-the-art 64-bit 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. architecture offering best-in-class performance. With all field-replaceable units redundant and hot swappable See hot swap. , the RocketRAID MAX offers extreme fault tolerance See fault tolerant. (architecture) fault tolerance - 1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. and is designed for high performance, mission critical SCSI interfaced UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NT computing environments requiring over 3 TB of disk storage. High Performing, Scalable Architecture In addition to a base 64-bit RAID controller architecture, the RocketRAID MAX utilizes a new PowerPC processor, features up to 1 GB of cache and supports RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 3 and 5, offering exceptional performance for computing applications ranging from sequential large block data streaming to random small block I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output databases. The RocketRAID MAX also offers great versatility, with the ability to port the system to SAN environments with the currently available dual Fibre Channel interface option, and in the future, to Ultra3 160M interfaced servers with a dual Ultra3 160M host channel option. Flexibility is also offered with support for up to four host servers in Ultra2 SCSI host channel configurations and for LUN-masking to multiple hosts in Fibre Channel host interface configurations. "The RocketRAID MAX will prove to be a significant step forward, not only for our company, but for the industry," said Steve Rosoff, president of Zzyzx. "This newest member of the Zzyzx family represents our continued commitment to deliver meaningful solutions that our users can embrace now and grow into down the road as new technologies and standards are introduced." New, Compact 5U Rack Mount Configurations The RocketRAID MAX is offered in a new compact 5U rack mount enclosure that supports two redundant, 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 RAID controllers and nine disk drives. Additional disk expansion enclosures can be daisy-chained to this 5U chassis, creating RAID solutions over 3 TB. In addition, 10 to 30 disk drive tower solutions are also available, supporting up to 2 TB in capacity. Both rack mount and tower configurations of the RocketRAID MAX can be built with 9 GB, 18 GB, 36 GB and 73 GB disk drives with speeds ranging from 7,200 RPM to high performance 10,000 RPM and 15,000 RPM models. Like all Zzyzx RAID enclosures, these cabinets feature redundant and hot swap power supplies, cooling fans and disk drive canisters. New, JAVA-Based RAID Management GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. The RocketRAID MAX also features Zzyzx' new Mission Control-MAX JAVA-based RAID management GUI, designed to facilitate network-wide RAID management. This user-friendly software runs in stand-alone mode on Solaris, Windows2000 and Windows-NT or remotely over a LAN/WAN LAN/WAN Local Area Network/Wide Area Network using any standard web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. . Mission Control-MAX provides a user friendly GUI for configuring and monitoring the RAID operational status, throughput and operational statistics, and enclosure status of the RocketRAID MAX with "at a glance" RAID monitoring and remote event notification Event notification is a term used in conjunction with communications software for linking applications that generate small messages (the "events") to applications that monitor the associated conditions and may take actions triggered by events. via email and paging. Scaled to Individual Needs & Budgets The addition of the RocketRAID MAX further positions Zzyzx to offer the most complete line of high-end RAID arrays in the industry. With a RAID product line consisting of both Fibre Channel and 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. connectivity scaling from 18 GB to 7 TB, Zzyzx users can enjoy built-to-order RAID solutions with an effective blend of performance, fault tolerance, capacity and scalability to meet their individual needs and budgets. Award-Winning Customer Service & Support The RocketRAID MAX is backed by Zzyzx' award-winning technical support with a three-year return to manufacturer warranty on the controllers and enclosure, and five years on the disk drives. In addition, lifetime toll-free 5x9 technical support is provided standard with each system. Optional on-site installation, product training, on-site maintenance and 7x24 tech support are also available. Availability The RocketRAID MAX is currently available directly through Zzyzx. Contact Zzyzx for a free technical consultation and for pricing on a custom built-to-order storage solution. Product specifications can also be viewed at www.zzyzx.com. About Zzyzx Zzyzx Peripherals Inc., headquartered in San Diego, manufactures and distributes innovative disk and tape storage solutions, workstations and peripherals for UNIX and NT environments. The company's extensive product line includes leading-edge storage solutions such as RAID arrays, customized Storage Area Networks (SAN) using Fibre Channel and SCSI technologies, Sun compatible SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill workstations and other storage related peripherals and products. To learn more about Zzyzx' products, custom storage solutions and outstanding service and support, access Zzyzx Peripherals Inc. at www.zzyzx.com and www.zcommerce.net All trademarks are the property of their respective holders. |
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