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How is the reliability of the S2VR series of solutions compared to Fibre Channel and SCSI storage solutions?

April 26, 2017fibre channel reliability s2vr SCSI SERIES solutions storage

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How is the reliability of the S2VR series of solutions compared to Fibre Channel and SCSI storage solutions?

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S2VR is as reliable as the much higher cost direct-attached FC storage. The S2VR is also far more reliable than the much higher cost SCSI-to-IDE Ultra 320 SCSI RAID storage solutions. Ultra 320 SCSI rely on parallel transfer and are very sensitive about their cable and connector quality. Because S2VR is native SATA storage, it does not use bridging like SCSI-to-IDE or FC-to-ATA, therefore the S2VR can get the most out of the internal SATA 3.0 HDD’s data transfer rate. Even thought the band width of SATA 3.0G is bit smaller than Ultra 320 SCSI, most of those FC or SCSI storage has performance around 200MB/s per channel. S2VR eliminates the interoperability problem and offers single vendor support. Everything from host interface card, internal RAID controller, software utility, driver and firmware are designed and developed by CalDigit. Most SATA storage solutions have to use justify their components for the best cost per performance. But S2VR ultilizes the most reliable components for d