The RAID 6 performance demonstration will feature AMCC’s upcoming SATA II RAID controller technology based on its eighth-generation StorSwitch™ switch fabric architecture, designed to significantly improve performance, availability and scalability by offloading data I/O from the host. Featuring native PCI Express, 3Gb/s SATA II and AMCC’s breakthrough parallel XOR RAID 6 algorithm, AMCC’s next-generation controller technology reduces the RAID 6 write performance penalty commonly found in other controllers to less than 10%, producing sustained throughput speeds more than 70% faster than competing RAID 6 controllers.
“Our performance demonstration will give LinuxWorld attendees a good idea as to what they can expect when we release our next generation 3ware SATA II RAID controller,” said Scott Cleland, director of marketing, AMCC Storage. “AMCC is able to achieve higher performance levels because it designs its own storage processors, built for serial storage applications which are used in Linux environments.”
The performance shootout will pit 8-port versions of AMCC’s next generation technology against a competing SATA RAID controller and a SAS-based RAID controller. The SATA controllers will run with 7200rpm RAID Edition drives from Western Digital, while the SAS controller will run with 10,000rpm SAS hard drives. All will be running xdd, an I/O benchmarking tool.
For AMCC’s high-density scalability demonstration, the company is teaming with leading storage and blade server chassis provider Advanced Industrial Computer, Inc. (AIC) to feature a 24TB SATA II system featuring four AMCC 3ware 9550SX controllers and 48 drives in a single unit.
Gene Lee, corporate vice president of AIC, City of Industry, California-based storage and server enclosure manufacturer, says, “AMCC 3ware has a long history of providing top performance, high capacity RAID for Linux environments. With the new SFF8087 backplane connection, AIC and AMCC are leading the way in storage design, working to ensure proper system cooling as well as efficient space utilization for massively scalable serial storage environments.”
“These technology demonstrations support our storage roadmap that we announced in May,” added Cleland. “This preview of AMCC 3ware RAID 6 and native PCI Express demonstrate how AMCC storage technologies will enhance Linux networks, enabling a new level of performance and scaling. We are also showing the pathway for SATA drives being utilized in dense, capacity-rich environments, enabling cost-effective, massively-scalable storage networks that deliver high performance.”
About AMCC
AMCC blends systems and software expertise to provide the essential building blocks for the
processing, moving and storing of data worldwide. The #1 high-port count Serial ATA RAID
controller line, AMCC’s 3ware® family of SATA RAID storage solutions deliver cost-effective,
high-performance, high-capacity storage for enterprises and consumers worldwide in applications
such as disk-to-disk backup, near-line storage, network-attached storage (NAS), video, and highperformance
computing. The company is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California with offices throughout the world. For more information, visit http://www.3ware.com or http://www.amcc.com.
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