Zzyzx Rockets To The Top - Zzyzx Peripherals RocketSTOR 2000 RAID array - Product Announcement

Computer Technology Review, April, 2000

Zzyzx Peripherals, Inc. extended its Fibre Channel storage product offering by announcing the availability of the RocketSTOR 2000. The RAID array is designed for data center environments requiring Fibre Channel connectivity, performance, capacity, and scalability. This Fibre Channel RAID product is a component to Zzyzx Peripheral's scalable Storage Area Network (SAN) solutions, featuring data clusters, data sharing, LAN-free backup, and, in the future, server-less back-up.

The array maximizes the potential of the Fibre Channel storage interface and satisfies the needs of bandwidth and I/O-intensive computing applications requiring terabytes of storage. These systems provide the performance and uptime required by applications such as online transaction processing, data warehousing, web serving, and e-commerce.

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. The product's RAID controllers are based upon the company's RS-62 core RAID controller architecture that features a StrongARM SA110 RISC processor, a set of caching algorithms, along with internal 32-bit and 64-bit PCI buses. This design will scale to future 200MB/sec Fibre Channel, Ultra3 SCSI, and 160M interfaces. Its hardware architecture, combined with a multi-tasking controller operating system, scales to provide 5.6TB of storage capacity.