ORLANDO, Fla, April 7, 2008 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Storage Networking World -- STEC, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEC), today announced the availability of the first solid state drive (SSD) to provide native Fibre Channel (FC) 4Gb support -- the Zeus-IOPS 4Gb Fibre Channel SSD. The first-of-its-kind SSD allows enterprise storage and enterprise server OEMs to adopt SSDs for a wider range of applications.
"This important product line expansion enables broader adoption of SSD technology in the datacenter," said Patrick Wilkison, vice president of marketing and business development at STEC. "The major OEMs in the enterprise storage and enterprise computing sectors need 4Gb FC with full compatibility and command set used by mechanical disc drives making it ever easier to incorporate SSD into existing systems requiring 4Gb FC drives."
"STEC has included a long list of features, allowing the OEMs to fully manage the performance and reliability of the drive in their application. Beyond the virtues of the 4Gb FC interface, STEC continues to evolve the entire Zeus-IOPS product line to continuously incorporate advanced features required by all enterprise-focused OEMs," said Wilkison.
The Zeus-IOPS enterprise SSD product family with proprietary product architecture delivers exceptional write performance and Full Data Path Protection. OEMs extract the full value from this category of SSD by optimizing around the very fast transactional performance of the drives. In particular, the sustained 100% random write input/output per second (IOPS) exceed 17,000. This level of performance renders unprecedented system-level performance gains and cost savings. Zeus-IOPS enables previously unattainable system-level IOPS at significantly reduced energy requirements and reduced total cost of ownership.
Pricing and Availability
Zeus-IOPS 4Gb and 2Gb Fibre Channel solid state drives are in mass production and currently available in capacities from 73GB up to 512GB. OEM pricing is available upon request. Sales information is available at http://www.stec-inc.com, via email at info@stec-inc.com or by calling (949) 476-1180.
About STEC
STEC, Inc., with headquarters in Santa Ana, California, designs, manufactures and markets high performance and high reliability solid state drives. For more information, visit the company's web site at www.stec-inc.com.
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