2.5-Inch Drive RAID Now A Reality!

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The cunning and clever folks at LSI Logic (+ cohorts) have come up with yet another feat that'll grab your attention:

  • LSI Logic and JMR Demo Innovative Serial ATA Storage Solution at CeBIT
    Innovative Serial ATA storage solution features first-to-market six port Serial ATA RAID storage adapter from LSI Logic - Remarkably small form factor enclosure from JMR Electronics features six hot-swappable 2.5 inch Fujitsu Serial ATA disk drives.

    MILPITAS, Calif., March 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) will demonstrate its MegaRAID(R) Serial ATA (SATA) 150-6 storage adapter with an innovative disk drive enclosure from JMR Electronics Inc. that features six 2.5 inch SATA disk drives from Fujitsu.

    The MegaRAID SATA 150-6 features an integrated 64-bit, 66 MHz I/O co-processor that powers LSI Logic's full-featured, high-performance RAID firmware engine with support for RAID levels 0, 1, 5, 10 and 50. Offering data transfer rates of up to 150 MB per second on each of the...

By the way, a FULLY WORKING demo of the 2.5-inch / 6-drive RAID was spotted at the recent CeBIT in Hannover, Deutschland.

Could 1-inch Microdrive RAIDs on the horizon??? :)


Read all about it at:

http://ir.thomsonfn.com/InvestorRel...=MzgwU1ZJPVAkWQEQUALSTOEQUALSTO&storyId=82931
 
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