Escalade Storage Controllers
Smart
Storage Solutions for Optimal Total Cost of Ownership
It used to be the case that achieving top I/O
performance required SCSI or fibre-channel technology. The tradeoff for
high performance, of course, was high cost. At 3ware, they believe
system designers should not have to make that tradeoff. PCs, workstations
and servers can now use mass-market ultra ATA drives and achieve the
performance levels previously associated with much more expensive
drives.
StorSwitch Architecture
Multiple streams for fast access...
Escalade Storage Switches successfully
compete with SCSI RAID controllers. 3ware’s patented StorSwitch
architecture provides the capability to stream large files faster than
Ultra160 SCSI alternatives. 3ware’s StorSwitch technology was
developed on the star network architecture principals with a multi-port
and
non-blocking switch fabric, removing shared-bus arbitration and
bottlenecks. Escalade Storage Switches maximize performance and
reliability because each drive is independently connected to its own
dedicated switch port. 3ware’s TwinStor technology for RAID 0, 1, 10
and 5 supports - simultaneous data reads from multiple drives, providing
scalable performance in a mirrored environment.
 TwinStor
Technology Pairing drives for fault
tolerance and performance...
TwinStor technology uses traditional RAID-1 mirroring for
fault tolerance, then goes one step further by delivering outstanding
performance. Special adaptive algorithms unique to 3ware speed access of
both large data files and smaller randomly distributed transactions,
resulting in read performance that rivals RAID-0 striping. This gives it
many of the characteristics of RAID-10, but only requires two drives
rather than the requisite four.
R5 Fusion Technology High-level
RAID 5...
R5 Fusion Technology significantly improves
RAID 5 write performance for both large sequential and small random
transactions. This advanced firmware technique combined with StorSwitch
delivers extremely high performance for RAID 5 write operations.
DV Wizards is pleased to carry the
Escalade Series of Ultra ATA/100 RAID storage controllers in 4- and
8-port versions.
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