Amherst, NY (March 2, 2010) — ATTO Technology, Inc., a global leader of storage connectivity and infrastructure solutions for data-intensive computing environments, announces its third generation ExpressSAS® SAS/SATA RAID Adapters, based on 6Gb/s SAS technology. These RAID adapters follow ATTO's ExpressSAS® 6Gb/s SAS/SATA host bus adapters, delivering significant advancements in performance and flexibility with enterprise-class features. With this announcement ATTO now offers a complete line of 6Gb/s SAS/SATA-based connectivity solutions for high-performance media and entertainment and general IT environments.
Available in four port configurations, ExpressSAS® RAID adapters combine 6Gb/s SAS architecture and innovative features to deliver an affordable host-level RAID solution for high-bandwidth workflows, such as digital content creation, streaming video, transactional databases, and email and Web servers. ATTO incorporates value-add features into its line of 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapters to ensure smooth data transfers and consistent performance levels. Advanced Data Streaming (ADS™) Technology controls the acceleration of data transfers to move large amounts of data faster and more efficiently, and DriveAssure™ Technology prevents premature drive failures ensuring uninterrupted access to data. These features combined with ATTO's impressive signal quality, help customers create, share and protect data more effectively.
“Our new line of 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapters is the culmination of almost two decades of experience providing RAID-based connectivity solutions for Direct Attached Storage environments,” states Tim Klein, president and CEO of ATTO Technology. “ExpressSAS® 6Gb/s RAID adapters leverage ATTO's market-tested RAID stack to provide our customers with a reliable and high-performance transition from 3Gb/s SAS/SATA infrastructures to 6Gb/s SAS/SATA.”
ExpressSAS® 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapters are available in four port configurations, 8 internal, 8 external, 4 internal/4 external and 16 internal, and support SAS, SATA and solid-state drives (SSDs). In addition to industry standard RAID levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, 10, 40, 50 and 60, ExpressSAS® RAID adapters offer exclusive DVRAID™ protection for digital video environments. ExpressSAS® 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapters also feature CacheAssure™, a flash-based protection module that provides an environmentally-friendly and maintenance-free solution that safeguards against the loss of cached data during a power or system failure.
Other features of ExpressSAS® 6Gb/s SAS/SATA RAID adapters include:
The ExpressSAS® R680, R608, R644 and R60F will be commercially available through worldwide distribution in Q2, 2010.
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For nearly 30 years, ATTO Technology, Inc., has been a global leader across the IT and media & entertainment markets, specializing in storage and network connectivity and infrastructure solutions for the most data-intensive computing environments. ATTO works with partners to deliver end-to-end solutions to better store, manage and deliver data. Working as an extension of customer’s design teams, ATTO manufactures host and RAID adapters, network adapters, storage controllers, Thunderbolt enabled devices and software. ATTO solutions provide a high level of connectivity to all storage interfaces, including Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, iSCSI, 40/10GbE, NVMe and Thunderbolt. ATTO is the Power Behind the Storage.
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