INFORTREND SHIPS HIGH PERFORMANCE
SAS-TO-SATA RAID ARRAY
NextGeneration RAID Array Offers Superior Price / Performance

Hannover, Germany, 15 March 2007 – Infortrend®, the RAID storage expert, today announced the first model in a new series of Serial Attached SCSI (SAS)-to-SATA RAID subsystems. The EonStor® A16S-G2130 uses a SAS interface for the host computer connection and a SATA-II interface for the drive connection. Customers are choosing to replace Ultra320 SCSI with a SAS host connection interface for the high bandwidth that SAS technology provides. However, in many situations, SATA-II drives are still preferred over SAS drives due to the availability of high capacity SATA drives and the lower cost per megabyte.

“We designed this new product family after listening closely to our customer's needs,” said Alex Young, technical and marketing director for Infortrend Europe Ltd. “Infortrend's new A16S-G2130 provides greatly increased speed compared to existing SCSI-to-SATA RAID subsystems, and with the advent of 750GB or 1000GB SATA drives, IT managers can economically satisfy their storage demand.”

The new SAS-to-SATA array is well suited for many applications: near-line storage to backup primary data, cinema/audio/video stream playback, email server storage, company-shared data storage, high resolution CCTV recording, medical image recording, and more.

Key Features

• 3U, 16-bay, single controller, SAS-to-SATA RAID subsystem

• Two SAS wide-connection channels with 12Gbps I/O bandwidth each and cascade functions to connect multiple units to the same SAS HBA channel
• SATA-II drive interface supports up to 16 cost-effective SATA-II drives
• RAID levels 0, 1(0+1), 3, 5, 6, 10, 30, 50, 60 are supported, with hot spare drives and auto-rebuild functions
• Easy maintenance with hot-swappable, redundant FRUs (Field Replaceable Units)
• Cross-platform, central management with active notifications via RAIDWatch™

 

Availability

The product is available now through Infortrend's worldwide network of distributors and storage integrators.

Target Markets and Availability

SANWatch software is currently being tested by several Infortrend partners worldwide and is expected to be released for sale in the June 2007 timeframe. This snapshot functionality will first be available to license on the EonStor A16F-G2430 subsystem and then rolled out for other ASIC400-based EonStor products. 

About Infortrend

Infortrend, the RAID storage expert, is a pioneer in cost-effective, high performance networked storage. The company's products include EonStor® storage systems for virtually all storage interfaces including SAS, SCSI, iSCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel.  Other products include RAIDWatch® software which provides central management with cross platform capability and SANWatch® software which provides snapshot backup services. For over a decade, Infortrend has provided reliable, fault-tolerant technology to prominent OEMs, distributors, and storage integrators worldwide. The company's core competency includes performance optimized RAID ASICs, feature-rich firmware, and redundant, high availability RAID subsystems.  Founded in 1993, Infortrend is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange (Taiex), ticker number 2495.  For more information, visit www.infortrend.com.

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