Ciprico 6900 Disk Array

• Provides UltraSCSI (SCSI-3), 40 MB/sec. interface
  
• 72, 144 or 288 GB capacities per array; up to 2 TB for 1 full rack of 7 disk arrays
  
• RAID-3 redundancy for continuous operation without data loss or performance degradation in the event of drive failure

6900 Series of RAID Disk Arrays
Ciprico's 6900 Series, our third generation in high-performance disk arrays, is based upon proven technology. With a 40 MB/second interface, these disk arrays provide the highest level of SCSI performance available in a single, cost effective package. The 6900 is based on RAID-3 technology, the type of RAID that best fits high-bandwidth, performance-driven applications such as imaging. Performance is maximized by striping user data in parallel across the array's disk drives. With RAID-3, usable disk space is maximized by utilizing only one drive for RAID data protection.

Performance
The 6900 uses the SCSI-3 peripheral interface standard sometimes called Fast20, UltraSCSI) that doubles SCSI-2's maximum transfer rate to 40 MB/second. Because our arrays are designed around industry standards, and are operating-system independent, any high-performance system architecture ( including PCI, VME and S-bus ) can take advantage of the 6900's performance. Ciprico offers the 6900 Series in a complete platform specific package for SGI. For more information, see our Spectra product. The design and technology is our own.

Multiple 6900s can be combined in different ways. For added performance, data can be striped across multiple arrays, increasing the overall bandwidth of the group by 40 MB/sec for each additional array. Alternatively, because they are a standard SCSI device, 6900's can be daisy chained for incremental additions of capacity.

Capacity and redundancy
The 6900 offers a wide range of capacity and redundancy options. You can order the array in a 5-drive or 9-drive configurations with array capacities expandable to 288 GB per unit. Arrays may be combined for greater capacities. The 6900's RAID-3 technology assures no loss of performance in the unlikely event of a drive failure. If a drive should ever fail, it can be swapped out with a replacement drive without shutting the array down. Further, you can control when and how fast a replacement drive is rebuilt, so there no interruption in real-time environments. Optional dual, load-sharing power supplies (also hot swappable ) further assure the array will always be available when you need it.

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