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FirewireDirect: NEW 2Gb FIBRE CHANNEL RAID STORAGE SOLUTIONS

FirewireDirect.com Inc has announced an enterprise level 2Gb Fibre Channel RAID solution. For demanding enterprise applications, professional digital content creation applications, and ideal for Storage Area Networks (SAN), the new Vanguard Ultra Elite Fibre System will support any platform with Fibre storage support and can deliver blistering 200 MB/s dual loop fibre throughputs in a space efficient 3U rackmount system. Boasting 512 megabytes of high-speed cache and a high-speed IBM RISC processor for high throughputs across up to 12 hard drive mechanisms, it supports large drives, currently up to 250GB, to provide up to 3 TeraBytes of storage, and RAID Levels 0, 1, 3, 5, 0+ 1 and 3 and 5 with hot spares.

It can be configured to maximize performance by allowing data to be stored using the most efficient RAID type. Volumes can be created to support RAID 1 for maximum redundancy, RAID 3 for large sequential data files, RAID 5 for high performance transaction processing of smaller files and RAID 0 for non-redundant workspace.

In addition to this extremely high performance, the Vanguard Ultra Elite offers the security of hot swappable redundant power supplies and fans and supports automatic rebuilding for an array in the event of a hard disk failure. Rebuilding is transparent and does not restrict access to your data. In the unlikely event of a hardware failure, the system can continue to operate at full performance with no down time.

Features include:

• 12 hot swappable drive bays, fan modules, redundant power supply units, and support for redundant power feeds
• Completely configuration from the front panel with operation information on array(s) state, cache usage, channel state and speed, logical drive configuration data and channel assignment, individual drive state, voltages and temperatures
• Powerful security and backup features
• Rock solid construction featuring a suspended hard drive tray design that reduces disk vibration, enhancing stability and extending life span
• An awesome Return On Investment (ROI), with cross platform support and a low cost per GigaByte traditionally unknown in Fibre products of this class

It is supported on any Fibre storage supporting system including Windows 2000, XP, Mac OSX 10.2 and later, and some Linux distributions.