E-Disk® SCD35 Combines 37 GB, Fast Access And Level 4 Hot Swap Capability
SAN DIEGO, California -- Dec. 12, 2000 -- BiTMICRO Networks Inc., a pioneer in intelligent storage solutions, today announced the release of its E-Disk® SCD35, the world's first true hot swappable Low Voltage Differential (LVD) solid state storage solution, at COTScon 2000.
Designed to meet Level 4 Hot Swap criteria, the SCD35 can be inserted and removed from a server, RAID system or a JBOD environment without powering down.
"This product is ideal for enterprise hot files and mission critical applications," said Tom Griffin, BiTMICRO's Vice President of Marketing and Sales, " allowing its users to remove and replace a drive without incurring the cost and inconvenience of idling down the affected bus or shutting down the system."
The E-Disk® SCD35 features an unmatched fast access time of less than 0.049 milliseconds and random sustained and burst read and write transfer rates of more than 34 MB/sec and 40 MB/sec respectively. Lightweight, it offers a non-volatile solid state flash storage capacity ranging from 256 MB up to unprecedented 37 GB in a 3.5-inch standard form factor with low-power consumption requirements.
To minimize system downtime the all-electronic SCD35 incorporates E-Disk's Preventative, Predictive and Corrective Maintenance features, including:
Flash Memory Scrubbing - automatically monitors and corrects errors in the flash memory. Error Correction Code (ECC) Threshold - correctly identifies blocks on the verge of producing uncorrectable errors. Wear-out Monitor - monitors block erase/write wear-out statistics. Automatic Remap for any bad block. Wear Leveling - evenly distributes the number of erase/write cycles over the entire flash device. BiTMICRO's patented PowerGuard - prevents data loss and corruption due to ungraceful power degradation.
These features are field upgradable and nearly universal across the E-Disk® product line, further simplifying field support.
"The E-Disk® SCD35 is another example of addressing our customers' needs for a solid state storage solution to decrease and avoid downtime while maintaining peak performance and capacity," said Rudy Bruce, founder and CEO.
E-Disk® solutions are fully compatible with Linux, Solaris, Windows NT, MacOS, and LynxOS. Other supported operating systems include AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, NetBSD, OS/2, QNX, VxWorks, SCO Unixware and OpenServer, Solaris X86 and Tru64.
The E-Disk® SCD35 is a replacement for any standard single-ended or LVD SCSI 3.5-inch hard drive, flash disk or solid state disk drive with an 80-pin SCA-2 connector. For further information, contact BiTMICRO® Networks at www.bitmicro.com or (510) 74E-DISK / (510) 743- 3475.
About BiTMICRO Networks
BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. (www.bitmicro.com), a privately held California corporation, is the world's premier supplier of high performance flash disk, solid state disk and network storage solutions. BiTMICRO's storage solutions offer unmatched performance, data availability and manageability across a spectrum of computing platforms from entry systems to super computers. BiTMICRO's storage product lines address a wide range of applications and operating systems needs including Storage Area Networking (SAN) and Network Attached Storage (NAS).
The company is a member of the Fibre Channel Industry Association (FCIA) and Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA).
BiTMICRO®, E-Disk®, FlashBus™, PowerGuard®, DataSentinel, and BiTMICRO Networks, Inc.® are trademarks of BiTMICRO Networks, Inc. Others are trademarks of their respective companies or other countries.
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