Why use an ATTO Diamond Storage Array?
A.Companies continue to face increasing stress on their IT infrastructures. Skyrocketing storage demands coupled with shrinking budgets are the main source of this stress. The ATTO Diamond Storage Array directly resolves both of these issues. By offering the industry’s highest density coupled with pennies per Megabyte costs, the Diamond Array provides immediate and substantial ROI for today’s IT organization. Q. Aren’t ATA drives considered less reliable than SCSI or Fibre Channel drives? A. The ATTO Diamond Array takes advantage of recent advancements in technology that make ATA drives as reliable now as SCSI or Fibre Channel drives. The MTBF ratings for the ATA drives that ATTO currently uses are comparable to SCSI or Fibre Channel drives, with an MTBF of around 800,000 hours. The high-volume demand for ATA disks has driven manufacturers to increase quality, performance and density to levels equal or beyond that available in Fibre Channel and SCSI disk drives. So much has been added
