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Storage controller supports 16 SATA drives

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Aug 11, 2008

Controller features a highly flexible data interface system for the PCI Express bus based on Conduant's unique modular mezzanine architecture.

New from Conduant Corporation is the StreamStor Amazon Express storage controller.

The new controller features a highly flexible data interface system for the PCI Express bus based on Conduant's unique modular mezzanine architecture.

Sustained recording and playback performance exceeds 600Mbyte/s.

The StreamStor Amazon Express is a full-size PCI Express card that can be installed in any PC with open PCI Express slots.

It can support up to 16 Serial ATA disk drives for a total capacity of 16Tbyte.

With its onboard PowerPC processor, real-time operating system and StreamStor data engine, it operates independently of the host PC.

Using direct card-to-card transfers over the PCI Express bus, the Amazon Express bypasses potential host-based bottlenecks, providing reliable, sustained recording and playback.

With the introduction of the Amazon Express, multiple sources on the PCI Express bus can record simultaneously without performance loss.

Amazon Express provides a true multichannel recording system with unrivalled performance.

"There's a growing need for data interface systems for the popular PCI Express bus", said Ken Owens, CEO of Conduant.

"We designed the StreamStor Amazon Express with the speed, reliability and flexibility our customers in the aerospace, scientific research, industrial and defence industries expect from us".

"Conduant has a long history of developing powerful recording and playback systems that meet the requirements of data-intensive applications".

The StreamStor Amazon Express features more than 7h of recording/playback capacity at 600Mbyte/s with the appropriate disk drives, and offers storage capacities from 250Mbyte to 16Tbyte.

It provides simultaneous streaming (read/write), data forking, and wrap-mode recording, which have long been standard features of the Conduant StreamStor family of products.

Pricing for systems based on the StreamStor Amazon Express start at under US $20,000 and will be available in the fourth quarter of 2008.