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What separates the ATTO Diamond RAID Array from off-the-shelf ATA solutions?

April 26, 2017array ATA atto diamond off-the-shelf raid solutions

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What separates the ATTO Diamond RAID Array from off-the-shelf ATA solutions?

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A. The Diamond Array utilizes ATTO patent-pending technologies, rather than off-the-shelf ATA solutions, to provide unsurpassed performance and category-leading density. The Diamond Array features Aggregated Data Transfer Technology (ADXT™) – resulting from over 18 years of research and design by ATTO Technology. ADXT is the heart of the Diamond disk storage array and is implemented on the intelligent midplane. The midplane contains a combination of custom Application-Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs), processors and proprietary embedded software to make ADXT processing technology a reality. ADXT is divided into three main processing sections that handle the data being read or written to the ATA disk drives via the host interfaces. The Virtual Device Manager (VDM), Data Routing Fabric (DRF) and ATA Interface Engines (AIE) work in unison to smoothly and efficiently organize data streams for storage or retrieval.