Atto XstreamCORE Intelligent Bridges Certified by MagStor

Atto Technology, Inc. announced its XstreamCORE FC 7600 and XstreamCORE ET 8200/8200T intelligent bridges have been certified by MagStor and are available for purchase from magstor.com.

MagStor Ltd is a specialist in LTO tape drives that connect via Thunderbolt but also offers tape technologies for a variety of workflows including SAS and FC desktop tape drives and tape libraries scaling up to 280 slots.

XstreamCORE accelerated protocol conversion devices add shared storage capabilities and management to SAS storage including SAS LTO tape drives. The performance of storage connected to XstreamCORE is enhanced thanks to technologies exclusive to Atto like SpeedWrite which keeps paths between the host and XstreamCORE filled with data to boost write performance to tape.

Specs:

XstreamCORE FC 7600  

• Supports up to 240 SAS/SATA HDD/SSDs
• 2 x 32Gb/s SFP+ FC ports / 4 x 12Gb/s mini SAS HD connectors
• Streaming performance of up to 1.1 million 4K IO/s while maintaining a consistent latency of less than 4μs
• Up to 10x performance improvement over standard SAN storage
• Supports Extended Copy L1D1 – offloads up to 5.2GB /s of data from server resources
• Supports SMR drives and RAID arrays

XstreamCORE ET 8200/8200T 

• Provides remote access to SAS storage
• 2 x QSFP+ 40GbE ports / 4 x 12Gb/s mini SAS HD connectors
• iSCSI extensions for RDMA
• Hardware accelerated iSCSI with an added latency of less than 2μs
• Supports up to 16 SAS tape drives per bridge
• Up to 6GB/s sustained transfer rate

“You can’t overstate how important it is to have a solid tape backup system in place, which is what you get with any certified MagStor and Atto solution,” said Tim Klein, president and CEO. “MagStor makes it convenient for their customers to buy everything they need from one location.“

The XstreamCORE joins ExpressSAS HBAs and ThunderLink Thunderbolt to SAS adapters on the MagStor website.