Tag archive: Fibre Channel

Seagate Technology is shipping its first 3.5-inch hard drives to use perpendicular storage technology to improve performance and storage capacity, offering 30 percent better performance than the company's previous high-speed drives. The Seagate Cheetah 15K.5 drives now head up the company's enterprise line of storage devices, so for the moment they're largely in the realm of servers, data centers, and high-end corporate… Read More

The NSC55 TagmaStore Network Controller handles up to 16 petabytes of externally attached storage.  It supports high end and midrange systems from EMC, IBM, Hitachi, HP, and Sun, among others.   It also offers an internal bandwidth of 12.1GigaBytes per second, and has a 64GB cache.  It has 48 Fibre Channel ports, 16 FICON ports, and 16,384 LUNs.  Another feature is the massively parallel Hitachi Universal… Read More

HP will offer the Hitachi Ultrastar 10K300 Fibre Channel drive in the HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) and the Ultrastar 10K300 SCSI drive in industry-standard HP ProLiant servers andthe HP StorageWorks Modular Smart Array (MSA) family. The Ultrastar 10K300 offers a valuable combination of capacity, reliability and ease of integration. “HP and Hitachi share an innovative spirit and customer-focused approach to doing… Read More

Adaptec's purchase price of the company that makes the Snap Server 1100, reviewed here on Designtechnica, is expected to be approximately $100 million, including future cash and stock compensation. This amount represents approximately $91 million of cash and $9 million of assumed stock options. Adaptec expects the transaction to generate more than $40 million in new revenue over the next four quarters and the acquisition is expected to… Read More

Reinforcing its leadership position in all major disc drive market segments, and further extending the industry's broadest product portfolio, Seagate Technology (NYSE:STX) today introduced an unprecedented array of new products targeting applications ranging from MP3 players to DVRs and other consumer electronics, notebook computers, PCs, servers and corporate data centers. These new disc drives include the world's first 1-inch… Read More

Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today announced the Ultrastar 10K300, the world's first 300GB enterprise hard disk drive. Hitachi's newest 10,000 rpm hard drive satisfies therequirements of mission-critical storage applications such as online transaction processing, data analysis and media streaming. The new 3.5-inch drives have already begun shipping and are in theprocess of being qualified at major OEMs worldwide.… Read More

The highest performance Serial ATA (SATA) hard drive available today, and the only one that spins at 10,000 RPM, WD Raptor is a high-end option on Dell's Precision workstation and Dimension PCmodels, including the new Dimension XPS model built for power users and extreme gamers. Customers now can order Precision workstations or Dimension desktop PCs with one or two WD Raptor 36 GB drives from http://www.dell.com/. WD Raptor drives deliver… Read More