nStor to Showcase Fibre Channel Products at NAB; CR8F & CR18F on Display in Fibre Channel Loop Community Booth
LAKE MARY, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 3, 1998--nStor(tm) Corporation, Inc., (AMEX: NSO), a leading manufacturer of RAID subsystem and information storage solutions, today announced they will be showcasing their new Fibre Channel storage solutions at the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) show in Las Vegas, April 6-9, 1998. nStor will be displaying their recently announced CR8F and CR18F Fibre Channel subsystem enclosures in the Fibre Channel Loop Community (FCLC) booth, located in the Sands Convention Center, Booth No. S10324.
"The addition of Fibre Channel products provides nStor customers with a complete array of storage solutions to offer network administrators the maximum bandwidth, availability, scalability and connectivity they need to meet their storage objectives, regardless of operating system platform or storage technology," said Steven Paulhus, director of marketing for nStor Corporation. "Both enclosures offer users a level of I/O performance commensurate with the processing power found in networked and clustered server environments, making them ideal for multimedia, video, web, and online transaction processing environments."
The CR8F is an external eight-bay enclosure available in either a tower or rack-mount configuration. Support for 4GB, 9GB, or 18GB fibre channel disk drives (both 7,200 and 10,000 RPM) provides up to 144GB of high-performance storage in a single CR8F. And, for maximum scalability, up to sixteen (16) CR8F enclosures can be combined on a single Arbitrated Loop offering over 2TB of fast, secure and reliable data storage.
Designed to maximize the number of gigabytes of storage per cubic inch, nStor's CR18F is an OEM-grade rack-based storage enclosure that houses an unprecedented eighteen (18) disk drives in a single 4U footprint. Utilizing 4GB, 9GB or 18GB disk drives, the CR18F offers up to 324GB of storage in one rack. Engineered to incrementally boost performance and availability through a modular design, up to ten (10) CR18Fs can be accommodated in a single 72" enclosure, representing 3.2TB of fast, secure and reliable data storage.
The robust enclosure design of both the CR8F and the CR18F features a cable-less, passive dual Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop (FC-AL) backplane that provides the maximum level of fault tolerance and performance. The enclosures feature data transfer rates up to 200MB/second, support for up to 126 devices in a single loop, and redundant hot-swappable disk drives, fans, power supplies and loop resiliency circuits (LRCs). nStor's unique hot- swappable LRC I/O cards handle the fibre channel re-timing and clock recovery on both the transmit and receive signals, and act as an active hub for cabinet daisy chaining. This eliminates signal degradation (jitter transfer) which can result in unreliable loop operation hangs when an enclosure simply relies on the drives to re-time the signal. Cable lengths up to 30 meters utilizing a copper interface or up to 10 kilometers utilizing fibre optics are also supported. When combined with a Fibre Channel PCI RAID controller, both enclosures offer the maximum in system flexibility and fault-tolerance, including RAID support, Online RAID Level Migration, Online Capacity Expansion, and Hard Disk Capacity Adjustment features. nStor's powerful AdminiStor(tm) Management software utilities provide easy set-up & configuration, management and monitoring of disk drives, fans, power supplies and temperature.
About the Fibre Channel Loop Community
The Fibre Channel Loop Community is a world-wide computer industry organization that is devoted to the marketing of Fibre Channel Loop topologies and technologies, with a focus on Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop technology. First organized in the summer of 1995, the FCLC has had a rapidly-growing and noteworthy group of members, including major system, subsystem, peripheral, semi-conductor, adapter, cable, connector, software companies and more.
About nStor
nStor designs, manufactures and markets a full range of cross-platform storage solutions including advanced external RAID subsystems and stand-alone data storage enclosures, tape backup solutions, UNIX-based memory products, digital media management products, and enterprise resource planning (ERP) software. Previously Conner Storage Systems (prior to being acquired from Seagate Technologies in 1996), nStor leverages more than 10+ years of experience in the area of data storage solutions. nStor Corporation, Inc., located in Lake Mary, Florida (near Orlando), is a wholly owned subsidiary of nStor Technologies, Inc. (AMEX: NSO). nStor has 11 sales offices located around the U.S. and a European office located in Bedford, United Kingdom, and its products are marketed through a worldwide network of OEMs, distributors, VARs, system integrators, and corporate accounts. Additional Information about nStor and its products can be found on the World Wide Web at nstor.com. -0-
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CONTACT:
nStor Corp. Inc., Lake Mary
Diane Weinzierl, Public Relations Manager
Phone: (407) 829-3624 o Fax: (407) 829-3638
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