“Distributed Processing Technology(R) (DPT(R)), a leading
supplier of high-performance SCSI and Fibre Channel RAID solutions
for servers and workstations, today announced new SmartRAID(R)V
Decade Ultra2 SCSI RAID controller models, with multiple Ultra2
SCSI channels, are shipping to distribution channel customers
worldwide. The two-channel PM1554U2-2U2 and the three-channel
PM1554U2-3U2 now join the single channel PM1554U2, which has been
shipping since January.”
“The SmartRAID V Decade is an intelligent RAID controller for
the PCI bus designed for those customers requiring full-featured
hardware RAID at the lowest cost. “Since DPT began shipping the
single-channel Decade, customers have been asking for a model with
additional Ultra2 SCSI channels,” said Johnny Cardosi, DPT vice
president of worldwide distribution sales and marketing. “With the
addition of the two and three channel Decade models to our product
line, DPT is the only manufacturer offering multi-channel
intelligent, hardware RAID controllers in the entry-level RAID
market.””
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“All Decade controllers include an embedded Intel i960 I/O
processor, are PCI 2.1 and I2O compliant, include hardware RAID 0,
1, 5, 0+1, 0+5, and 4MB of EDO cache memory (64MB cache capacity
via RA4050 module upgrade)”….”Operating system compatibility
includes Windows(R) NT(R), Win 95/98, NetWare(R), SCO(R) OpenServer
5, SCO 3.2.4.2, SCO UnixWare(R) 7, UnixWare 2.1.4.2, OS/2(R), and
Red Hat(R) Linux 5.2.”