CORAID EtherDrive SAN Boosts Fault Tolerance With Double Parity RAID
RAID 6 Safeguards Against Data Loss by Allowing Two Consecutive Drive Failures
San Clemente, CA--(Marketwire) - CORAID, providers of affordably fast SAN, today announced the immediate availability of a firmware upgrade that introduces RAID 6 support for EtherDrive® SAN. Double Parity RAID, or RAID6, safeguards against data loss by allowing an array to keep working with no lost data even if two disks fail. A second set of parity is calculated and distributed across all the drives, providing significantly more robust fault tolerance.
"RAID6 eliminates the risk of data loss if a second hard disk drive fails or an unrecoverable read error occurs while the RAID array is rebuilding," said James Kemp, CEO of CORAID. "Because our EtherDrive SAN solutions are so extremely affordable, customers can have a completely redundant, fault tolerant SAN at a fraction of the cost of a comparable iSCSI or FibreChannel solution." Built for virtualization environments, EtherDrive SAN provides fault tolerant network storage that is very complimentary to a VMware Infrastructure solution.
CORAID EtherDrive SAN is a scalable network storage solution that fits SMB budgets. Delivering Fibre Channel speeds at Ethernet prices, EtherDrive SAN is affordably fast, simple to understand and easy to use. Built on the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) lightweight SAN protocol, EtherDrive provides enterprise-class storage that embraces virtualization for the demands of today's IT organizations.
Last month CORAID released results of a performance comparison study of ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) running in a VMware® ESX™ environment. Results show that AoE is substantially faster than Fibre Channel and iSCSI in testing both read and write throughput. The complete study is available for download free of charge at http://www.coraid.com/TECHNOLOGY/AoE-Performance-Study
For more information on how CORAID EtherDrive SAN is being used across a spectrum of critical storage applications for a broad range of customers in the enterprise, government, research, educational institutions, and web hosting service providers all over the world, contact CORAID at +1-706-548-7200, email sales@coraid.com or visit www.coraid.com.
About CORAID, Inc.
CORAID EtherDrive®, the affordable network storage, provides fast SAN solutions exceeding Fibre Channel speeds at Ethernet prices. CORAID designs and manufactures innovative, affordable network storage appliances based on the open ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) lightweight network storage protocol. AoE leverages the advantages of Ethernet without the burden of TCP/IP overhead. EtherDrive SAN is the affordable alternative to iSCSI and Fibre Channel. CORAID was recently named among "Linux Magazine's Top 20 Companies to Watch in 2009" and has won InfoWorld's BOSSIE Award for Best of Open Source in Storage and Product Excellence Award for Best Data Backup and Storage Solution at the Linux World Expo. For more information, visit www.coraid.com.
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SOURCE: CORAID, Inc.