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| Silicon Image's New SiI 4726 Processor Silicon Image, Inc. has added a new processor, the SiI 4726, to its SteelVine Storage Processor portfolio. With five high-speed - 3 gigabit per second - SATA-II ports, the SiI 4726 pushes the boundaries of affordable, reliable and scalable Direct Attached Storage (DAS) solutions for the audio/video editing, small office/home office and small to medium-sized business markets. The SiI 4726 can be configured for internal or external applications, and is designed to maximize uptime even in the face of multiple drive failures. It supports auto rebuild, auto fail over, hot swap and hot spare without the use of host resources. At a speedy 100 gigabytes per hour, the SiI 4726 quickly re-establishes a mirrored drive set after a failed drive has been replaced. Capable of supporting up to 2.5 terabytes of storage, the SiI 4726 delivers over 230 megabytes per second of input/output throughput; supports RAID 0, RAID 1 and RAID 10, concatenation, and JBOD (Port Multiplier) configurations; and is capable of enabling multiple RAID partitions on single hard drives, giving the OEM the flexibility to configure the processor to meet varying combinations of capacity, performance and data protection. As with all SteelVine solutions, the SiI 4726 works with any SATA-compliant host port - no driver, BIOS extension, or host software is required - making the SiI 4726 completely operating system independent. This provides storage system manufacturers the ability to easily target devices with embedded operating systems such as personal video recorders (PVRs), medical equipment, and surveillance systems, as well as any PC or device that runs a commercial operating system such as Windows, Linux or MAC OS X. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |