American Megatrends heeft de low-profile MegaRAID Express 550 Ultra160 SCSI RAID controller aangekondigd. De Express 550 is specifiek bedoeld voor lage 1U en 2U racks, waarin ruimtegebrek altijd een probleem vormt. De controller wordt geleverd met een BIOS config tooltje en het FlexRAID proggie waarmee RAID arrays on-the-fly uitgebreid en gemigreerd kunnen worden:
American Megatrends Inc. (AMI) today announced its first Ultra160 PCI SCSI low profile RAID controller, the MegaRAID® Express 550. Targeted for 1U and 2U servers, the Express 550 MD2 size RAID controller allows information technology managers to save expensive rack space, reduce co-location costs and increase the available space for RAID storage, routers and other types of adapters.``The low profile form factor available with the Express 550 Ultra160 PCI SCSI RAID controller meets our customers' needs for physically smaller dedicated task servers, such as web, email, firewalls and caching engines,'' said Siamak Iranpour, AMI director of RAID sales. ``In addition to enabling small rackable servers, the low profile board delivers increased value to workstations and network attached storage (NAS) devices that have little space for add-in options.''
The Express 550 entry-level PCI RAID controller with one Ultra160 SCSI channel offers advanced RAID management utilities and software features, including:
- WebBIOS® browser-user interface (BUI)-based, OS independent configuration utility at the BIOS level
- FlexRAID®, allows administrators to perform on-line capacity expansion and RAID level migration
- Power Console® Plus, manages and creates disk arrays and controls and monitors RAID servers
- 40 logical drives per controller and 15 physical drives per logical array
- Smart Init., automatically checks the consistency of logical drives in RAID 5 applications
- Auto Resume during array rebuild or reconstruction