Intel Makes Storage More Reliable, Manageable With Set Of New, Flexible Storage Processors

Intel Makes Storage More Reliable, Manageable With Set Of New, Flexible Storage Processors

Intel Corporation today introduced a family of storage processors that serve market segments ranging from small and medium-sized businesses to large enterprises. The Intel® IOP34x Family integrates advanced data protection, hardware-based RAID 5/6 (redundant array of independent disks), multiple high-performance Intel XScale® processor cores and support for high-speed serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (SATA) interfaces in processors and controllers for server direct attached and external storage products. Developers designing these flexible, pin-compatible processors into their storage solutions benefit from reduced engineering investments, proven interoperability, lower system costs and a time-to-market advantage.

“This new family of processors provides the storage industry with unprecedented product and interface design flexibility,” said Hans Geyer, vice president and general manager, Intel Storage Group. “By building their products on a common architecture, storage OEMs can more easily accommodate a variety of product solutions, increase manufacturing options, address multiple market price-points and simplify component management.”

As part of this flexible family of storage products, the IOP348 brings SAS RAID into the mainstream, enabling businesses of all sizes to benefit from its protection, performance and power-efficiency features. The IOP348 integrates an I/O processor with a SAS/SATA I/O controller, combining RAID and SAS technologies to deliver a new level of storage performance for internal and external storage products.

The single-core Intel® IOP341 I/O processor and two-core Intel® IOP342 I/O processor can be used in both external storage and embedded systems that require high performance. The ability to split functionality between two cores within the IOP342 is ideal for situations which require a single processor for two independent applications, enabling users to optimize and tailor the performance of different types of solutions.

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