American Megatrends Ships high performance RAID controller

Atlanta 08 Sep 99 American Megatrends released the MegaRAID Enterprise 1500, a high performance 64-bit PCI Ultra2 LVD SCSI RAID controller for enterprise-class servers. The Enterprise 1500 cotrollerreaches sustained sequential throughput of 210 MB/sec. and a random I/O rate of more than 8,000 I/Os per second. All Major operating systems are supported, including Novell NetWare, Windows NT)/2000, SCO UNIX, UNIXWare, DOS, Linux, Solaris and OS/2 Warp.

For the highest level of fault tolerance available today, the Enterprise 1500 also comes with Microsoft) MSCS certified clustering technology as a standard feature. Utilizing the clustering technology, the Enterprise 1500 offers network administrators nearly 100 percent uptime in NT environments.

The Enterprise 1500 is the only 64-bit PCI RAID controller that offers a manufacturing upgrade path to support Ultra 160M SCSI with a data transfer rate of 160 MB/sec. per SCSI channel. The controller also supports up to 128 MB cache using a single, industry standard ECC SDRAM DIMM with on-board battery backup for fault tolerant cache memory support.

"With the advanced features and superior stability that the MegaRAID Enterprise 1500 offers, AMI will be able to continue its long history of flexibility and availability in the RAID arena," said Elaine Morris, Product Manager for the Enterprise 1500 at AMI.

The state-of-the-art controller supports up to 15 devices per channel and RAID levels of 0, 1, 3, 5, 10, 30, 50 and JBOD.

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