A reduction in price has seen the use of rackmount systems for single-processor configurations begin to increase and has spurred demand for platforms that can provide customers with the flexibility to configure their systems for many different kinds of applications. The type of storage that a given company uses changes from department to department as well as between different companies. For that reason, Tyan is introducing the Tomcat i7221 (S5150), an adaptable single-processor server platform for the rackmount space.
In order to deliver powerful single-processor server performance, the Tomcat i7221 uses the Intel E7221 “Copper River” chipset and supports Intel’s next-generation Pentium 4 “Prescott” processor for LGA775 configurations. Also integrated into the Tomcat i7221 platform are PCI Express (PCIe), PCI-X with some legacy PCI expansion slots for older cards, 4-port Serial ATA with RAID options, and a SODIMM expansion port designed to support Tyan’s low-profile TARO storage add-on card products for additional SATA or SCSI functionality.
Currently, Tyan has three TARO storage add-on cards available, namely a single-channel SCSI card, a dual-channel SCSI and a four-port SATA card that supports RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 0+1, and HostRAID, said the company. This design will allow for future storage expansion capabilities, according to the company. The TARO add-on cards operate on the PCI-X bus, said the company.
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Sep 23, 2004, 05:27 PM
