Adaptec Serial ATA RAID To Offer Cost-Effective Workstation Storage
Adaptec has announced that major motherboard makers Asustek, Gigabyte, Supermicro and Tyan will use the firm's new Serial ATA RAID solution in their next-generation motherboards. The solution enables workstations and servers that deliver cost-effective data protection, fast connectivity to low cost-per-gigabyte Serial ATA disk drives and a seamless way to migrate to Adaptec's external storage products.
The Adaptec Serial ATA RAID solution provides data protection through Adaptec's HostRAID software, a technology that allows customers to easily scale storage capacity, data protection and system performance to their growing storage needs by providing a smooth migration path to Adaptec's RAID add-in cards and, ultimately, to its direct-attached and networked storage arrays.
"Organizations working to store rapidly growing amounts of information are demanding a simple, cost-effective way to upgrade workstation and server storage," said Ahmet Houssein, vice president and general manager of Adaptec's Storage Solutions Group. "Adaptec HostRAID allows customers to migrate to Adaptec's full range of RAID cards and external storage solutions with plug-and-play ease."
The Serial ATA RAID solution couples Adaptec HostRAID with high-throughput 4- and 8-port Serial ATA ASIC technology from Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. HostRAID provides the same mirroring and striping capabilities embedded in Adaptec's industry-leading Ultra320 SCSI controllers. To simplify storage management and reduce related costs, the solution can be managed under the same management software used for Adaptec's SCSI, Serial ATA and upcoming Serial Attached SCSI solutions.
Systems integrating Asustek, Gigabyte, Supermicro and Tyan motherboards powered by the Adaptec solution will combine these capabilities with the seamless migration path to Adaptec's external storage arrays.
The Adaptec solution enables cost-effective workstation and server storage for email, electronic documents, presentations, CAD/CAM images and other reference data - highly valuable but infrequently accessed information. The volume of reference data worldwide is rapidly growing, driving demand for servers, external storage appliances and networked storage solutions that deliver cost-effective storage capacity, fast data access and robust data protection.
"Organizations require a cost-effective way to protect and access reference data such as electronic documents, presentations and images generated by word processing, email, CAD/CAM, graphics and other applications," said Charles Liang, president and CEO of Supermicro. "Adaptec and Marvell have combined high-availability RAID with the fast access and low cost of Serial ATA, allowing Supermicro to develop Serial ATA solutions that meet these needs."
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