Conduant's multidrive recoder stores 16 Tbytes
-- Test & Measurement World, 5/21/2008 3:00:00 PM
The Big River LTX2-35 data recorder from Conduant houses 16 3.5-in. hard drives, sealed drives, or solid-state drives to achieve up to 16 terabytes of storage capacity in a 2U rack-mount chassis.
Ruggedized for remote or portable applications, the LTX2-35 provides more than 500 Mbytes/s of recording and playback performance in a compact, power-efficient package. It can operate as a stand-alone system with network control or can be directly connected to a host computer via its StarFabric PCI bridge interface.
The LTX2-35 is designed to meet the rigorous demands of aerospace, scientific research, and defense applications. You can configure the unit with lower-cost rotating disk storage or solid-state drives for tolerance against shock, vibration, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure. It supports a wide variety of external, interchangeable interface mezzanine cards, including FPDP, FPDP2, LVDS, Serial FPDP, and Camera Link. Command and control functions are performed through the StarFabric interface or through an Ethernet connection. Connectivity to a host computer using the StarFabric interface provides full PCI performance for data retrieval.
Base price for the Big River LTX2-35 starts at about $34,000 for a 4-Tbyte system.
Conduant, www.conduant.com.
