"We and our customers welcome Pigeon Point Systems' expertise and breadth of
hot swap infrastructure offerings supporting PLX's GigaBridge switched PCI architecture," noted Mike Hopwood, Vice President of Sales and Business Development at PLX Technology.
This includes a combination of special techniques, including an ejector handle switch, staggered pin support,
hot swap registers, and blue LED that, when integrated with software, minimizes time-to-service.
"As the pioneer of ATA RAID and the first company to deliver a
hot swap enclosure for ATA RAID environments, Promise has recognized the necessity of reliable SATA drive
hot swap for server applications," said Sam Sirisena, vice president of sales and marketing worldwide, Promise Technology, Inc.
The new package supports
hot swap for non-system-slot CPUs and board insert/extract notification.
Model Summary IP Storage 2001 4125 - 100 4125 - 200 Scalability 109 GB - 216 GB 216 GB - 1.74 TB Drives (min - /max) 3 - 6 3 - 48 Engines/Notes 1 1 Processors 1 2 Protocol Attachment to HDD SCSI SCSI Redundancy
Hot Swap HD
Hot Swap HD Hot Spare Hot Spare
Hot Swap Fans
Hot Swap Fans Redundant PS Redundant PS Backup External Tape External Tape
It provides a cost-effective inrush current limiting solution for
hot swap applications such as Enterprise class hard drives, the company said.
Revision 3.0 of the CompactPCI(R) Core Specification incorporates features from PICMG's
Hot Swap and Computer Telephony specifications, such as pin sequencing.
The new product features
hot swap, active/active, dual redundant RAID controllers with two 100MB/sec Fibre Channel host interfaces, eight Ultra2 SCSI LVD drive channels, and 1GB of cache memory.