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Lapis Solutions adds Serial ATA to its range of high-density RAID storage systems

Lapis Solutions Ltd today announced two additions to its DataPac® 5000 Series of high-density RAID data storage solutions – now offering four Serial-ATA drive bays in a compact 1U enclosure and 12 Serial-ATA drive bays in a 2U form factor.

May 26, 2004 -- Lapis Solutions Ltd today announced two additions to its DataPac® 5000 Series of high-density RAID data storage solutions – now offering four Serial-ATA drive bays in a compact 1U enclosure and 12 Serial-ATA drive bays in a 2U form factor.

These latest additions to the Lapis family of products offer multiple-host configuration options, such as dual Ultra 320 SCSI and dual Fibre Channel 2Gbit host connections.

“The DataPac® 5000 Series is the next generation of high-density RAID solutions and has been designed for maximum flexibility and scalability.” said Tony Howard, managing director of Lapis Solutions. “This design enables customers to maximise the return on their investment by offering the highest number of hot-pluggable drives in a 1U or 2U form factor. Unsurpassed fault-tolerance results from eliminating all potential points of failure.”

The DataPac® 5100 and the DataPac® 5200, feature four and twelve S-ATA disk drives respectively, which are connected to the controller through a completely cable free internal backplane. The powerful on-board Fault Management System “CommandView™” carries out pro-active fault monitoring. It also provides time stamping of events and monitors ambient air temperature, as well as drive temperature to detect high temperature thresholds.

A powerful 64-bit RISC processor, supporting up to 1GB of cache, powers the integrated RAID controller. The use of 4 or 12 separate disk drive channels ensures a single drive failure cannot compromise the RAID system’s stored data.

This RAID system supports single or multiple arrays, online expansion, dual host connections and clustering.

About Lapis Solutions
Lapis Solutions is a UK based company with a strong international outlook that specialises in the design and manufacturer of high-performance and cost-effective RAID solutions for markets worldwide. The company is noted for its comprehensive capability which enables it to provide reliable storage solutions – based on specialist expertise.

Lapis designs solutions that exploit both IDE and S-ATA drives for value, and Fibre Channel and SCSI drives for performance and scalability. The company’s wide range of products is often used to expand storage capacity in SAN environments or can be directly attached to servers (DAS/SAS) and is designed for four to 21 Bay enclosures.

Its RAID units are used not only in IT departments and networks, but also in specialist roles, including CCTV, Telecommunications, ISPs, Seismic recording, and Voice recording.

Lapis designs and builds its own branded solutions, which include the StorPac, DataPac and DiskPac range of products. In addition, as a bespoke sub-contractor, Lapis Solutions, also, designs and builds data storage solutions for OEMs, Value Added Integrators and Solution Providers. The company offers full customer branding of the product, including packaging, manuals, logos and GUI. An important area of activity within the company is the provision of engineering services to OEM and other customers in the design of their own RAID solutions.
Founded in 1999, the company’s high-quality, RAID-based, storage units are designed and assembled in Lapis’s own ISO9001 certified factory at Leeds in Yorkshire. The company, also, has regional sales offices in the UK, USA and Israel at Tunbridge Wells, Seattle and Herzelia, respectively. Technical Support Services are based in the UK & USA.