Intel ‘makes storage more reliable, manageable’
The Intel IOP34x family is designed to integrate advanced data protection, hardware-based Raid 5/6 (redundant array of independent disks), multiple high-performance Intel XScale processor cores and support for high-speed serial-attached SCSI (SAS) and serial ATA (Sata) interfaces in processors and controllers for server direct attached and external storage products.
Developers designing these processors into their storage solutions benefit from reduced engineering investments, proven interoperability, lower system costs and a time-to-market advantage, the company says.
“This family of processors provides the storage industry with unprecedented product and interface design flexibility,” says Hans Geyer, vice-president and GM, Intel Storage Group. “By building their products on a common architecture, storage OEMs can more easily accommodate a variety of product solutions, increase manufacturing options, address multiple market price-points and simplify component management.”
As part of this family of storage products, the IOP348 brings SAS Raid into the mainstream, aiming to enable businesses of all sizes to benefit from its protection, performance and power-efficiency features.
The IOP348 is designed to integrate an I/O processor with a SAS/Sata I/O controller, and to combine Raid and SAS technologies to deliver a higher level of storage performance for internal and external storage products.
The single-core Intel IOP341 I/O processor and two-core Intel IOP342 I/O processor can be used in both external storage and embedded systems that require high performance, Intel says.
The ability to split functionality between two cores within the IOP342 is said to be suitable for situations which require a single processor for two independent applications, and to enable users to optimise and tailor the performance of different types of solutions.
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