High-performance RAID subsystem from SGIDallas 07 Nov 2000 SGI launched the Total Performance 9400 (TP9400) RAID storage array, a full-fiber storage solution that offers the highest throughput RAID storage subsystem in its class, the company says.
The TP9400 complements the existing line of SGI storage products, which range
from internal PCI-based RAID to multiple-terabyte, enterprise-class storage
solutions. SGI storage products are designed to address the needs of a wide range
of scientific, technical, analytical and creative users in government, defense,
manufacturing, science, broadband communication and entertainment
environments.
With the TP9400, customers can easily scale both performance and capacity while the
subsystem remains online and totally available to applications. Engineered with four front-end
and two back-end Fibre Channel buses per controller, the TP9400 can sustain industry-leading
throughputs of up to 350MB per second read and 260MB per second write. The system can be
dedicated to a single server or shared among numerous computing platforms through direct
Fibre Channel attachment or as part of a storage area network. Modular base units provide
flexibility in form and function, accommodating more than 8TB of data in a single unit and
16TB of data in a double unit. In addition, the TP9400 provides superior online storage
management tools usually associated with enterprise-class solution, and is the ideal solution for
bandwidth-intensive applications.
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