Hitachi claims 20 percent faster storage
New AMS1000 array released.
By Deni Connor, Network World | Network World US | Published: 09:24, 23 January 2007
Hitachi Data Systems claims to have increased the performance of its storage by 20 percent with a new TagmaStore storage system.
The Adaptable Modular Storage 1000 (AMS1000) array has 32 logical cache partitions as well as support for iSCSI , network-attached storage (NAS) and Fibre Channel . It also can be used to migrate data across tiers of storage without disrupting operations, the company said.
It features RAID -1, 1+, 5 and 6 data protection and 4Gbit/s Fibre Channel connectivity. The AMS1000 joins the AMS200 and AMS500 in Hitachi's family of midrange arrays.
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Customers can intermix 73, 146 and 300GB Fibre Channel drives with 500GB Serial ATA drives and will scale from 1TB to over 200TB of data. It can serve as back-end storage for Hitachi's Network Storage Controller NAS gateway or the high-end Universal Storage Platform.
The performance increase is due to its use of multi-processing technologies, the company said. Prices start at around $80,000.
