Solution providers are excited about recent news that Applied Micro Circuits Corp. (AMCC) will be coming out with the speediest desktop storage device for Macs to date.  The bundled package will be shipped with a new PCI Express-to-SATA RAID controller, a desktop storage chassis with four bays for SATA hard drives, a high-bandwidth SATA cable designed for Mac computers and a collection of storage management software, according to Scott Cleland, director of marketing at the vendor.

Even though Apple presents users with Xserve RAID array and other vendors also offer some USB, FireWire and eSATA products for Apple solution providers, Apple products have not had many options for high-end storage.  Solution providers hope this will be their opportunity to have true hardware RAID solutions.

The 3ware Sidecar SATA II RAID product allows users to write RAID 5 at more than 150 MBps for Power Mac G5 systems and also allows for read speeds reaching above 200 MBps.  This product is based on AMCC’s hardware RAID technology, which came from the company’s acquisition of 3ware in the first part of 2004 to add to a list of resources for the company for solution providers.

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