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| Accordance Introduces the ARAID 2200 Solution Accordance Systems has announced the ARAID 2200, the first drop-in Serial ATA II RAID 1 storage solution for data protection. The device mirrors PC data to two SATA II drives ensuring critical data is not lost in the event of a disk failure. The ARAID 2200 easily installs in any Windows, Mac or Linux system as a plug-in disk array that requires no additional hardware or software to operate. The device mounts into two standard 5-1/4" PC storage bays and utilizes two standard 3-1/2" SATA II drives. The ARAID 2200 appears as a single drive to the system but constantly mirrors data to two SATA II drives providing data protection. Each SATA II disk used in the disk array is housed in a removable, hot swap drive tray. The ARAID drive trays can be used for disk rotation for offsite storage in a similar manner as tape but with more reliability. Status of each drive is constantly displayed on ARAID's bright front panel LCD. In the event of a drive failure, the ARAID 2200 alerts you with LCD display, audio alarm, SNMP monitoring software and email. The ARAID 2200 utilizes Silicon Image's SteelVine SiI5744 storage processor, a highly integrated, high performance ASIC providing three built-in interfaces: SATA, eSATA and USB 2.0. The new ARAID 2200 not only provides true SATA II to SATA II capability, but also native command queuing capability. The ARAID 2200 is also equipped with an easy to read LCD screen as its human-machine interface and both RS-232 and USB connectors as host monitoring interfaces. SNMP support provides remote monitoring capabilities and provides system administrators with notification in the event of a disk failure. The ARAID 2200 will be available in January of 2008. write your comments about the article :: © 2007 Computing News :: home page |