Chaparral K5412
Single host
Fast

The Chaparral RAID controller is the fastest RAID on the market at 10,000 IOs per sec, 90MB level 5 Sustained throughput. This RAID system is designed to be used with databases, streaming video or any application that needs fast reliable storage. It attaches to any SCSI host like NT, Novell, UNIX, Linux, MAC or any SCSI host. The SCSI host just thinks it has a big hard disk. Our NAS RAID and standard SCSI to SCSI systems use the Chaparral controller.

RAID CONTROLLERS

All RAID controllers featured here are LVD drive channel and LVD host. Each systems will have two drive channels and can be expanded to 30 drives. All RAID controllers have the ability to add storage to an array on the fly. Fibre channel host can be added for an additional cost.
CMD is dual host and Chaparral is a single host.

CMD 5640 Dual Host Custering

The CMD 5640 is designed to be a dual host system. These systems can be used on the NT Enterprise or UNIX clustering schemes. The 5640 can be configured in two ways. One controller set to dual hosts or two RAID controllers set to dual host ( clustering/redundant). The redundant RAID controllers are expensive and should only be considered in applications where 100% uptime is necessary. CMD controllers are known thruout the industry as being extreamily reliable. Consider the CMD controller if you are going to implement Clustering. If not we would suggest the K5412 for its performance.