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To: George Dawson who wrote (1674)	12/4/1999 8:05:00 PM
From: George Dawson	Respond to of 4808

I did a little bit of digging on the technical specs of the XIOtech Magnitude storage server compared to the NTAP F760 and the ASPX NS2000. XIOtech claims that the throughput is 70 MBytes/sec with no mention of benchmarks. The NTAP F760 and the ASPX NS2000 are benchmarked at 57.9 and 55 Mbytes/sec. The XIOtech Magnitude also has a performance of 50,000 - 80,000 I/O per second. The NTAP performance is listed at 7,750 I/O per second, but I would assume this is for 1/8 of the adapters populated with the appropriate NIC. All three devices scale into the terabyte range. The topologies differ significantly in that the NTAP and ASPX devices plug into the LAN with standard ethernet, FDDI, or ATM NICs. The XIOTech Magnitude plugs in to servers with FC HBAs. Scaling beyond the 8 point to point connections can be accomplished by inserting an FC switch. My take on the situation is that Seagate has acquired a very competitive SAN product. George D.