45 Nanometer Performance Boost for transtec
The transtec NAS & iSCSI Storage Servers integrate the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 Processors and affordable 10 Gbit Ethernet.Tübingen, 18. December 2007 – transtec AG has upgraded its extensive NAS & iSCSI Storage Server family to include the latest technologies. The NAS file servers from the hardware solution provider in Tübingen are among the first on the market to integrate the new Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 Processors with 45-nm technology. The powerful and energy-efficient models deliver 10 Gbit offloading network cards and high-performance NAS clusters with up to 64 nodes. They can reach performances considerably above the 1 Gigabyte/s threshold. In the entry-level sector for office and branches, transtec offers two particularly inexpensive and quiet desktop models.
The transtec NAS & iSCSI Storage Servers have three main arguments in their favour: the new 45 nm chips from Intel®, the affordable 10 Gbit Ethernet and finally, the dual SAS and SATA mode. The Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® 5400 CPUs, developed especially for use in the high-performance computing sector as well as for applications with high bandwidth, deliver 38 percent more performance per Watt and have a 50 percent larger L2 cache than current Xeon® 5300 Processors. The energy-efficient chips also reduce power consumption and ensure more convenient system cooling.
With the Myri-10G network cards from partner Myricom, transtec offers for the first time NAS filesharing and IP SAN solutions based on Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, which are also cost efficient thanks to 10 Gbit Ethernet. The 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express offloading network cards achieve an excellent performance of over 700 MB/s per port and also provide multi-protocol support for TCP/IP and Myrinet. The price is below the price of eight normal 1-GbE ports. “By integrating Myricom 10GbE offloading cards, we could break the performance limit of 1 Gigabyte per second in our NAS/SAN gateways“, Marco Poggioli, Storage product manager at transtec, is satisfied. transtec customers can connect up to 64 NAS gateways to one fail-safe, load-balanced high-performance cluster and can make these accessible to all users via a centralised mountpoint. This opens up completely new performance classes in comparison to using a standard Microsoft cluster service.
The new generation of transtec storage servers provides unrestricted dual mode of SATA and SAS hard disk drives to increase transactions in the iSCSI SAN environment. Depending on the model, the systems can be scaled with up to 60 hard disks without interruption. Traditional SAN applications such as Microsoft® Exchange/SQL or Oracle™ also profit from SAS/SATA dual mode. The performance is completed with the powerful RAID controllers from ICP vortex, LSI Logic and 3ware.
The spectrum of NAS & iSCSI Storage Servers includes twelve different models ranging from the entry-level model, transtec 500D Mini-NAS available from 925 euros onwards (plus VAT) to the transtec 8350M Clustered Storage Server for 8900 euros. All storage servers are available starting January 7th, 2008.
The entire model series, which offers a suitable system for any requirement, and more details, can be found at >>
An image of the storage server family can be downloaded at the following link >>
With the Myri-10G network cards from partner Myricom, transtec offers for the first time NAS filesharing and IP SAN solutions based on Microsoft Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003, which are also cost efficient thanks to 10 Gbit Ethernet. The 10-Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express offloading network cards achieve an excellent performance of over 700 MB/s per port and also provide multi-protocol support for TCP/IP and Myrinet. The price is below the price of eight normal 1-GbE ports. “By integrating Myricom 10GbE offloading cards, we could break the performance limit of 1 Gigabyte per second in our NAS/SAN gateways“, Marco Poggioli, Storage product manager at transtec, is satisfied. transtec customers can connect up to 64 NAS gateways to one fail-safe, load-balanced high-performance cluster and can make these accessible to all users via a centralised mountpoint. This opens up completely new performance classes in comparison to using a standard Microsoft cluster service.
The new generation of transtec storage servers provides unrestricted dual mode of SATA and SAS hard disk drives to increase transactions in the iSCSI SAN environment. Depending on the model, the systems can be scaled with up to 60 hard disks without interruption. Traditional SAN applications such as Microsoft® Exchange/SQL or Oracle™ also profit from SAS/SATA dual mode. The performance is completed with the powerful RAID controllers from ICP vortex, LSI Logic and 3ware.
The spectrum of NAS & iSCSI Storage Servers includes twelve different models ranging from the entry-level model, transtec 500D Mini-NAS available from 925 euros onwards (plus VAT) to the transtec 8350M Clustered Storage Server for 8900 euros. All storage servers are available starting January 7th, 2008.
The entire model series, which offers a suitable system for any requirement, and more details, can be found at >>
An image of the storage server family can be downloaded at the following link >>