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| One Stop Systems' First PCI Express-Based SATA/SAS RAID Array One Stop Systems has announced the release of the first PCI Express-based RAID storage system, a robust, rack mount system that provides 12 hot-swappable SATA II / SAS drives for a total storage capacity of up to 6 terabytes. The RAID system operates from a host PC on either a PCI Express x4 or x8 cable (included) when the PCIe adapter card (also included) is inserted into the host PC's PCIe x4, x8, or x16 slot. The system supports RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 6, 10, and JBOD, and Intelligent "multiple logical drive" architecture allows the combination of different RAID levels on one set of disks. Hot-swap ability facilitates the replacement of failed drives and makes this 12-drive storage system suitable for network attached storage (NAS), security and surveillance, disk-to-disk backup, and video editing. Disk arrays provide reliability and a higher data transfer rate through multiple channel access. The RAID controller organizes data on the drives and controls the flow of data to and from the host computer. This allows the user to write/read data to the drive array from the host PC at speeds up to 40Gb/s by simply installing the attached PCIe adaptor board into a PCIe slot in the host PC and cabling it to the RAID system. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |