Michael L. Chang

CONTACT: Michael Chang of Promise Technology, Inc., +1-408-228-6339, michaelc@promise.com Web site: http://www.promise.com/

As a result, SATA drives now make up 30 percent of the market for server drives, says Michael Chang, product marketing manager for the network and server storage group with Promise Technology.

"What customers like about this feature is the design simplicity and flexibilityproduct developers can use a single design to make it become a RAID 0, 1, 10 or RAID 5 or 6 system," said product line manager Michael Chang, who added that Vitesse is the first chip vendor to provide a SAS ROC controller.

"Everyone else is behind us," he said.

Since SCSI has been the dominant storage interface, a large portion of the market's infrastructure is based on the technology.
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Most enterprise applications demand a hardware RAID approach for their RAID 5 applications for better reliability and performance compared with a traditional hardware RAID 5 design, two-chip implementation that costs roughly $100, Vitesse's single-chip product is much cheaper at approximately $50, Chang said.
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"Vitesse RAID controllers, with the RAID on Demand and the best price/performance ratio, accelerate the proliferation of RAID in the SAS market," Chang said.

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"When making storage choices, many factors like reliability, scalability, workload/performance, data integrity, system architecture/interface and power consumption come into consideration," said Michael Chang, product marketing manager of Promise Technology.