Coraid Pushes Storage Performance Limits

Data Center | News | Mike Vizard, Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Bandwidth Management, storage
Coraid has extended its lineup of EtherDrive storage systems with a new model that can transfer 1,800MB per second.

The SRX4200 series, which connects to servers over raw Ethernet, supports up to 36 drives in a 4u chassis that is connected via a 10Gb Ethernet interface.

Unlike other storage systems that rely on protocols such as iSCSI to connect to servers, Coraid has developed an approach that allows its storage system to connect to a server over raw Ethernet.

Coraid is not only aggressively pricing the SRX-4200 series at $580 a terabyte, the company is also making available a special offer where customers can get a petabyte free for every petabye of storage they buy.

According to Carl Wright, executive vice president of worldwide sales, Coraid is especially targeting customers with large-scale virtual machine deployments that are running in I/O performance bottlenecks as virtual servers contend with others to access limited amounts of storage bandwidth.

In addition, Coraid has added support for a RESTful interface to make it easier to integrate applications with its EtherDrive series.

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Take a look at alternatives
Wed, 2010-08-25 15:07 — Mitch (not verified)
I would take a look at SimplStor as well. It is not using any proprietary protocols like the Coraid solution that uses “raw” Ethernet and has a lower cost of $300 a TB. http://www.prweb.com/rele...
NOT proprietary
Thu, 2010-08-26 03:49 — Millennia (not verified)
@Mitch - AoE is NOT a proprietary protocol, it is open source and just of way of simply encapsulating the disk commands in Ethernet frames. Cannot find any performance figures for SimplStor to compare like with like.

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