Adaptec 5Z Series products available

Adaptec The company has released the Adaptec 5Z series Unified Serial (Sata/sas) RAID control card series. The release of these high-performance control cards centralizes the industry's first 0 maintenance cache protection (Zero-maintenance cache homeowner) module based on flash memory, which allows data center managers to implement a single control card scheme for data protection in the event of a power outage or drive failure. The current generation of lithium-ion-based cache devices is likely to be replaced by the Adaptec RAID 5Z Series Design in the future. Overall, this is an integrated solid-state solution that drastically reduces the annual operating cost and environmental impact of the data center. The Adaptec RAID 5Z Series Control card incorporates an integrated, maintenance-free design that eliminates the need to check the battery charge condition or shut down the server to replace the battery.

Adaptec "with the rapid growth of enterprise storage requirements, we see a huge demand for full-featured, maintenance-free data storage I/O solutions that reduce overall it costs and have a significant environmental advantage," says Scott Cleland, marketing director. For SATA and SAS drives, the Adaptec 5Z series delivers not only the performance, scalability, and high energy efficiency that our users need, but also the 0 Maintenance cache protection feature, which provides a critical data layer that is often overlooked and is an easy-to-use maintenance-free solution. The

Adaptec 5Z Series Products

Adaptec 5Z The family of products, based on the industry-leading Adaptec RAID 5 Series High-performance Architecture, provides an innovative way to protect risk data in the control card cache and overcome the drawbacks of common battery backups. Since the fastest way for a raid control card to complete a read/write request is to obtain data from its control card cache, enabling and protecting the RAID control card cache provides significant performance benefits and can prevent the loss of cached data in the event of a power outage or system failure.

Currently, the data stored in each 3000 server cache is close to 1TB, so the value of a reliable and easy-to-use backup solution is invaluable in the event of a system power failure. The 0 Maintenance Cache protection feature of the Adaptec 5Z series protects the data stored in the control card cache for up to 10 years, eliminating the cost of installation, monitoring, maintenance, scrap processing, or replacement. Unlike lithium batteries, 0 maintenance cache protection protects cached data in minutes rather than hours, providing instant protection and optimized raid performance. 0 maintaining cache protection features immediate protection of cached data without the need to wait a few hours for battery charging to quickly provide immediate protection and direct optimized raid performance. 0 maintaining cache protection improves performance without the hassle of traditional battery backup devices.

Environment and ROI Advantages

Adaptec 5Z The family of products emphasizes the commitment of Adaptec to the development of energy efficient and environmentally friendly products. Adaptec 0 maintains cache protection to avoid the problem of previously cached critical computing applications requiring the handling of lithium batteries in accordance with hazardous waste. In addition, these control cards do not need to comply with the International Air Transport Association (Analysys Air by association,iata) related to lithium battery packaging and transport regulations, thus eliminating the high cost of labeling work, testing and cumbersome document preparation. The Adaptec 5Z series also employs Adaptec innovative intelligent Power Management (intelligent) capabilities to cut up to 70% storage energy and cooling costs.

Gartner Group Roger Cox, vice president of research for storage research, said: "Now IT managers and system architects must validate new technologies that can handle ever-increasing data-entry flows and provide the lowest total cost of ownership." This innovative I/O solution, which optimizes system performance and eliminates the need for maintenance, consumes less energy and produces fewer hazardous waste, which is highly recognised today in the data center and fast-growing virtual computing market. The

In a traditional datacenter environment, or in a large-scale extended virtualized data Center server environment running VMware Software or Xen, the latest Adaptec 5Z series control cards offer tremendous ROI potential. This solution achieves savings by eliminating high-cost features, which include: 1 purchasing replacement batteries yearly, 2 operating costs associated with downtime during battery installation/recharging, 3 interruption costs when a power outage results in data loss. All of these plus the 4-year daily use cost of lithium batteries amounted to more than $2000 per server. The Adaptec 5Z series delivers the most cost-effective, complete and effective data protection solutions in the industry.

Industry support for Adaptec 5Z series Innovation

Codonics "In the healthcare industry, ensuring the integrity of long-term data is critical," said Gary Keefe, vice president of new product development. In Codonics, we are trying to design a product that can raise data protection to a new level, and reduce the cost of operating the customer by cutting or completely avoiding onsite service costs. The Adaptec 5Z series RAID control card, with 0 maintenance cache protection, provides an advanced technology to avoid the cost and environmental burden of traditional battery backup devices, which are currently used by many medical storage solutions. Codonics is pleased to continue to work with Adaptec to develop innovative medical products that provide high performance, reliability and value to our users. The

Penguin Computing the is a high-performance computing cluster provider headquartered in San Francisco, California. Jussi Kukkonen, director of product management at the company, said: "So far, those who run Penguin high-performance computing clusters and related storage resources have to pay special attention to the day-to-day maintenance of backup batteries in RAID control cards, which can add additional operating costs." Adaptec's latest 5Z series RAID control card with 0 maintenance cache protection cancels battery use and does not affect cache protection or performance. It provides important new design flexibility for our traditional Linux file servers and Distributed File system architecture blocks used in High-performance scalable storage solutions. This is advantageous to the user, the environment and the Penguin tripartite. The

Silicon Mechanics "as a leading provider of data center server, storage and High-performance computing cluster solutions," said Mike Dusche, vice president of marketing and product sales, Silicon Mechanics is committed to integrating advanced innovative technologies that provide proven cost-effective and performance advantages for our users. Adaptec's latest 5Z series is a good example. Its 0 maintenance cache protection provides another level of data protection for our users, eliminating the hassle of maintenance and support and annoying battery obsolescence. The

SoftLayer "In our ever-growing, on-demand cloud computing environment, the control card cache loses any mission-critical information--financial transactions, supply chain directives, customer orders, etc.--in the context of a power outage or other types of system disruption," says Jacob Linscott, a LUnix expert and IT system director. are extremely sensitive and have disastrous effects both for our users and for our credibility. Adaptec's latest 5Z series RAID control card with 0 maintenance cache protection provides a simple, affordable, and environmentally friendly solution that almost completely excludes the possibility of cache data loss.