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Supporting both cost-effective Serial ATA and high performance Fibre-Channel drives a single Silicon Storage Appliance provides the flexibility to deploy different storage types for varying performance requirements under one consolidated platform.

The Silicon Storage Appliance offers a versatile SAN solution that can be used for both primary "on-line" or secondary "near-line" storage. It achieves this goal by delivering the best quality of service (QoS) and the highest levels of performance, availability and reliability, data integrity, and scalability available on the market today.

Scalability

Providing a solution that can answer tomorrow’s capacity needs today the Silicon Storage Appliances coupled with Serial ATA drives can easily scale to hundreds of Terabytes behind a single appliance or Petabytes in a SwiftCluster™ configuration.

Performance

The Silicon Storage Appliance with Serial ATA disk drives delivers performance comparable to Fibre-Channel disk drive based solution. With sequential data transfers it maintains 90% or better of Fibre-Channel performance.

Availability & Reliability

With its parallel architecture and virtualization capabilities the Silicon Storage Appliance delivers a robust solution specifically designed for data and bandwidth intensive computing environments. Not only it delivers the highest performance but also guaranties that this performance is sustained in the event of disk or even a full disk chassis failure.

Data Integrity

Due to its unique ability to continuously check parity "on the fly" as well as background parity checking, the Silicon Storage Appliance provides an additional level of data protection over and above other Serial ATA based solutions.

Manageability

Consolidating both FC and SATA drives and providing built-in replication capabilities, virtualization, any-to-any data-access architecture, load balancing, and performance monitoring and optimization, The Silicon Storage Appliance makes deployment, data movement and management a breeze.