CeBIT 2007: Storage & Servers
by Johan De Gelas on March 29, 2007 12:15 AM EST- Posted in
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Looking at the storage front, the 2U Promise Vtrak E310f looks a lot like the VTrak J300s (a 2U 12 disk JBOD system). Looks can deceive of course: the E310f is an RBOD which has built-in failover/failback RAID 6 dual SAS controllers. The VTrak E310f connects to your SAN Switch via 4Gb fiber channel ports. The price of the 310f is around 4000 Euro (probably about $4500).
It is one of the first RBODs to use the Intel IOP341 CPU. This is a highly integrated, system-on-a-chip I/O processor incorporating the low-power Intel XScale processor, which runs at clock speeds of about 800 MHz. The IOP341 has also a rather large 512 KB L2 for an embedded chip. The XScale chip provides "pure hardware" or IOP-based RAID, including support for RAID 6. RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 10, 50, 60 are also supported. No less than 512MB cache is available (with a maximum of 2GB).
Up to four VTrak J-Class JBOD systems can be daisy chained via the SAS port to provide more storage space. The RBOD can be completely configured via a comprehensive remote management web server interface.
This kind of RBOD still needs a third party SAS controller from Adaptec or LSI. Promise offers only SAS controllers with internal ports.
Looking at the storage front, the 2U Promise Vtrak E310f looks a lot like the VTrak J300s (a 2U 12 disk JBOD system). Looks can deceive of course: the E310f is an RBOD which has built-in failover/failback RAID 6 dual SAS controllers. The VTrak E310f connects to your SAN Switch via 4Gb fiber channel ports. The price of the 310f is around 4000 Euro (probably about $4500).
It is one of the first RBODs to use the Intel IOP341 CPU. This is a highly integrated, system-on-a-chip I/O processor incorporating the low-power Intel XScale processor, which runs at clock speeds of about 800 MHz. The IOP341 has also a rather large 512 KB L2 for an embedded chip. The XScale chip provides "pure hardware" or IOP-based RAID, including support for RAID 6. RAID 0, 1, 1E, 5, 10, 50, 60 are also supported. No less than 512MB cache is available (with a maximum of 2GB).
Up to four VTrak J-Class JBOD systems can be daisy chained via the SAS port to provide more storage space. The RBOD can be completely configured via a comprehensive remote management web server interface.
This kind of RBOD still needs a third party SAS controller from Adaptec or LSI. Promise offers only SAS controllers with internal ports.
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Nehemoth - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - link
Well it was invented by AMD but was the code name for the Turion.Later indeed miss used over Internet....
Hope Barcelona be an Amazing chip, regards to AMD for the great products that Intel is Gave in us, yes sound really extrange but imagine where we would be if not for AMD..
CrystalBay - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - link
Fascinating analysis Johann ..JohanAnandtech - Thursday, March 29, 2007 - link
Thanks!With the current hints we got from Intel (Penryn Xeons might go to 3.6 GHz if necessary), I just hope AMD will do better than 2.3 GHz. Journalists like us need Epic battles ;-)