DoSTOR analysis of the store on October 13: According to the disk array vendor, enterprise-level users faster SATA rush, they will be mainly used for the main SATA storage. In response, suppliers have plans to upgrade the product.
two of today's conference illustrated this point. Maxtor Corporation announced the enterprise-class storage OEMs customers new 3-Gbit / s interface MaXLineIII new series, while Seagate introduced for video servers and similar products 3-Gbit/sSATA hard drive.
In fact, today released two new products the company is not far behind in others. Earlier this year, Hitachi introduced the first of a 500GB hard drive 3-Gbit/sSATA In addition, Fujitsu and Western Digital also has a 120GB and 400GB of 3-Gbit / s hard drive.
all of which progress indicates that SATA has been increasingly used as the media and scientific computing applications such, these applications before being fully occupied Fiber Channel. In addition, SATA hard disk It is clear that not only can be used to back up. According to Nexsan Technologies, vice president of market BrendanKinkade, their customers, though not in the majority, but there are still substantial SATA is used for main memory. NexsanOEM Hitachi's hard disk 500GBSATA.
He said: SATA users to boycott it? not. They need greater capacity and higher density.
Hitachi EqualLogic customers of another company, said users only need to spend a little money, iSCSI array of users SATAII can be found is in fact very simple. The company RomanKichorowsky spokesman said: We have a capacity of 5TB the PS200E is priced at 51,800 U.S. dollars, 7TBPS300E priced at 56,000 U.S. dollars. Both have 14 drives, which means that every TB as long as less than 8000 U.S. dollars, This is not to discount the price. Brbrbr1TB hard disk is not a surface? Not at this moment, it is still too early may. Although the total OEM manufacturers loudly praised SATAII hard drive, but there is no indication that SATAII drive more than FC, particularly in enterprise-class FC drives are 4-Gbit / s transition. Maxtor plans over the next two weeks for its enterprise-class 500GB hard drive to provide the 3-Gbit/sSATA. Fujitsu is also in progress, but no dates had been fixed.