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StorCase LAUNCHES InfoStation 10-BAY 1U ENCLOSURES

StorCase Technology announced that it will be shipping InfoStation 1U RAID enclosures supporting the newest 2.5-inch Serial ATA (SATA) drive technology and SCSI or Fibre dual host connections.

StorCase has once again built upon previous technology experience and design expertise to provide a compact InfoStation 10-bay 1U enclosure supporting 2.5-inch SATA drives and a variety of SCSI Ultra320 or Fibre 2 Gb per second RAID applications.

"The new 10-bay InfoStation RAID enclosures are extremely space-efficient, supporting storage capacities and data throughput rates that would require much more rack space and consume considerably more power with traditional 3.5-inch drive enclosures," said Joel Tang, director of engineering at StorCase. "The SATA drive interface also provides the customer with a price and performance combination unavailable with pure SCSI or Fibre solutions."

Each InfoStation 1U enclosure for SATA drives is equipped with an integrated high-performance RAID controller and supports up to two SCSI Ultra320 or two 2 Gb per second Fibre host channels. Unique features are included, such as the Data Master Graphical User Interface (GUI) and an integrated SAF-TE processor with StorCase SAFTEmon Web-based management software.

"Fujitsu introduced the first 2.5-inch SATA hard disk drive to the market so that we could work with storage leaders like StorCase and deliver cutting edge solutions to the marketplace," said Lorne Wilson, vice president of channel sales and marketing at Fujitsu Computer Products of America. "Working together, Fujitsu and StorCase have created a new value and performance proposition for high performance storage users."