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- From: cassidy@esd55.enet.dec.com (Charlie Cassidy)
- Subject: Re: Query: Solid State SCSI Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.203919.9793@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
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- Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
- References: <1992Oct13.181846.27503@news.th-darmstadt.de>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 20:39:19 GMT
-
-
- We are showing the following products at COMDEX next week. We also
- announced today the EF5x family of DSSI SSDs for Digital's VAX and ALPHA AXP
- systems. Please contact me or visit us at the Digital's OEM booth on the Comdex
- floor for more information on our latest SSDs.
-
- DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION
- FACT SHEET
-
- PRODUCT NAME: ESP500 SCSI-2 Solid State Disk
-
- OVERVIEW:
-
- The ESP500 is a new family of SCSI-2 Solid State Disks (SSDs)
- offering standard, easy-to-implement, lightning-fast I/O for
- applications where consistently fast access to large, expanding
- databases is a competitive necessity. As Digital's first open
- systems offering in the Solid State Disk category, the ESP500 is
- attractively positioned for volume business with generous storage
- capacity, a standard 5 1/4-inch form factor, and below-market
- pricing that puts the tremendous speed of SSD technology within
- reach of most distributed computing and server environments.
-
- The ESP500 Models 510 and 530 provide up to 100 times faster
- access to data and up to 10 times greater transaction throughput
- than magnetic disks. The near-instantaneous access time of
- 0.25ms is achieved by eliminating the latency associated with
- magnetic disk rotation and head seek. Not only do ESP500 SSD
- perform at semiconductor speed, they are predictable as well,
- because the constraint of data locality associated with magnetic
- media does not affect SSDs.
-
- ESP500 SSDs plug and play just like magnetic disks. As SCSI-2
- disk devices, they conform to the same rules and are the same
- physical size as 5.25" magnetic disks so they fit into standard
- storage slots. ESP500 SSDs can be mirrored, striped, and bound
- in volumes like magnetics disks, and data is placed on them using
- the same SCSI-2 commands. The Model ESP530 offers 267 MB of
- capacity, while the Model ESP510 offers 107 MB and an integrated
- Data Retention System, which combines power sensing logic,
- batteries, and an integrated hard disk to back up data in the
- event of a power failure.
-
- KEY FEATURES: BENEFITS:
-
- o Lightning fast I/O. o Provides up to 100x faster
- access to data than
- conventional magnetic disks.
-
- o Standard 5 1/4-inch form factor. o Plug and play operation.
- Slides into standard
- storage slots. Fits into
- system and storage cabinets.
-
- o SCSI-2 device. o Provides instant benefits
- regardless of hardware
- platform. Uses same
- commands as magnetic
- disk. Boosts performance
- of existing applications
- up to 10x without recoding
- the application, operating
- system, or device driver.
-
- o Data Retention System. o Ensures non-volatility.
- (ESP510 model) Provides the same data
- permanence of a magnetic
- disk in the event of a
- power failure.
-
- o Breakthrough pricing only from o Offers Solid State Disk
- Digital. technology at an attractive
- price-point for today and
- future systems, servers,
- and high-end workstations.
-
- PRICING AND AVAILABILITY:
-
- Evaluation units are available in Q1, 1993. Volume shipments of
- the ESP500 commence in Q3, 1993.
-
- The price point of $13.5 K for ESP500 SSD evaluation units is
- significantly below the rest of the industry. Volume pricing
- will be even more aggressive.
-
- For Further Information:
-
- Madeline Flynn
- OEM Solid State Disk Products
- (508) 841-3399
- (508) 841-3738 (Fax)
-
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- as you." - Dr. Seuss
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- Charlie Cassidy Internet: cassidy@memory.enet.dec.com
- Digital Equipment Corporation Amateur Radio: charlie@n1hlr.ampr.org
- Memory Products Group - SHR1-4/O11
- 333 South Street This posting reflects the opinion of
- Shrewsbury, MA 01545 the author, not Digital Equipment Corp
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