Promise Ships RAID Arrays Based on Jasper Forest

Promise Technology is on the Intel’s Jasper Forest bandwagon as the company is now shipping RAID systems based on Intel’s Xeon C5500/C3500 chips, which are designed to accelerate storage applications and reportedly offer a 4X performance boost, according to sister site InfoStor.

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“Promise Technology became the first RAID array vendor to ship systems based on Intel’s Xeon C5500/C3500 (‘Jasper Forest’) processors, which are optimized for storage, with today’s introduction of the VTrak Ex30 series RAID arrays.

“Storage-related features of Intel’s C5500/C3500 processors, which are in the Xeon family, include a built-in RAID accelerator, asynchronous DRAM self-refresh technology, PCIe non-transparent bridging, and increased bandwidth, according to David Tuhy, general manager in Intel’s Storage Group.

“In large part due to the use of Intel’s C5500/C3500, Promise is claiming a 4X increase in performance over previous generation RAID arrays, according to Ray Bahar, vice president of sales and marketing at Promise.

“Specifically, Promise claims sequential read performance of 5,500MBps, RAID-5 write performance of 2,400MBps, and RAID-6 write performance of 2,200MBps based on testing with Intel’s iometer benchmark code. In terms of I/O performance, Promise claims 440,000 I/Os per second (IOPS) from disk, and 610,000 IOPS from cache.”

For more, read "Promise Ships Intel C5500/C3500-Based RAID" at InfoStor.

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