Conduant Offers StreamStor Amazon Express Storage Controller

By DE Editors

Conduant Corporation (Longmont, CO)  introduced its StreamStor Amazon Express Storage Controller, which features a highly flexible data interface system for the PCI Express bus based on Conduant’s modular mezzanine architecture. Sustained recording and playback performance exceeds 600 megabytes per second (MBps).

The StreamStor Amazon Express is a full-size PCI Express card that can be installed in any PC with open PCI Express slots. It can support up to 16 SerialATA disk drives for a total capacity of 16 terabytes (TB). With its onboard PowerPC processor, real-time operating system and StreamStor data engine, it operates independently of the host PC.

Using direct card-to-card transfers over the PCI Express bus, the Amazon Express bypasses potential host-based bottlenecks, providing reliable, sustained recording and playback. Now multiple sources on the PCI Express bus can record simultaneously without performance loss.

The StreamStor Amazon Express features more than seven hours of recording/playback capacity at 600MBps with the appropriate disk drives, and offers storage capacities from 250MB to 16TB. It provides simultaneous streaming (read/write),  data forking, and wrap-mode recording.

Pricing for systems based on the StreamStor Amazon Express start at under $20,000 and will be available in the fourth quarter of 2008. For specifications,  visit Conduant Corporation.

Sources:  Press materials received from the company and additional information gleaned from the company’s website.