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Pacific Digital's Talon Controller and Western Digital's WD
Raptor(TM) 10,000 RPM SATA Drives Set Performance Speed Record for SATA Queuing
Available Now, Groundbreaking TCQ Performance of Talon Provides Cost-effective
Alternative to SCSI
IRVINE, Calif., June 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Pacific Digital Corp. has announced
outstanding benchmark results using Western Digital's WD Raptor(TM)
enterprise-class 10,000 RPM Serial ATA (SATA) hard drives with Pacific
Digital's new Talon(TM) controller. Used in workstation and server platforms,
the combination of Pacific Digital Talon and WD Raptor hard drives outperforms
many 10,000 and 15,000 RPM SCSI drives. Using the industry standard IOMeter
benchmark, the performance boost is 1.5 times the throughput of more expensive
10,000 RPM U160 SCSI configurations.
The performance of SATA drives increased dramatically with the introduction of
a key performance-enhancing feature, tagged command queuing (TCQ), the
overlapped and queued command set. Western Digital's WD Raptor 74 GB hard
drives are the first 10,000 RPM drives commercially available implementing TCQ.
Designed to enhance TCQ performance, Pacific Digital's Talon controller
increases the throughput and data integrity of systems that utilize WD Raptor
hard drives and dramatically improves system-level price/performance ratio.
This translates into higher performance for high-end system builders,
integrators and end users upgrading or installing new SATA devices.
Talon's automatic DMA (ADMA) technology excels in systems that manage many
outstanding disk I/O tasks, making it ideal for high performance platforms.
Talon provides relief to the system CPU handling these tasks, effectively
outperforming SCSI host adapters. Using ADMA command chaining, the Talon host
controller offloads host-interrupt processing, improves bus utilization, and
enhances data transfer rates when used with WD Raptor hard drives. Designed to
excel in demanding server and workstation environments, as well as emerging
gaming applications, Talon provides a versatile, high-performance storage
component.
Talon offers "zero lag" in high-performance gaming environments. "With its
zero lag TCQ, Talon and WD Raptor -- in a RAID 0 configuration -- creates a
huge pick up in map load times with zero choke in high performance multi-user
game server environments," notes Jay Roberts, CEO of Art of War Central, a
leader in hosting game servers. "Now gaming servers desiring the best
performance no longer have to pay for overly expensive Ultra SCSI to have the
best system response."
"The ability to deliver SCSI-level performance at SATA price points makes the
combination of Talon with WD Raptor 10,000 RPM drives an attractive alternative
for system builders," said Robert Horton, Pacific Digital marketing vice
president. "High performance platforms can now employ Pacific Digital Talon's
groundbreaking TCQ technology in conjunction with Western Digital's high
performance WD Raptor hard drives to provide enterprise-class SATA solutions."
"With Talon's TCQ support of WD Raptor hard drives, Western Digital and Pacific
Digital are providing high performance that rivals SCSI solutions at
cost-effective SATA price points," said Hubbert Smith, director of marketing
for Western Digital. "WD Raptor has an enterprise-class mechanical platform
and is the first and only TCQ-enabled SATA drive to spin at 10,000 RPM. The
combination with Pacific Digital's Talon provides the fastest hard
drive/controller solution available, regardless of interface."
About WD Raptor
WD Raptor 74 GB hard drives have been tested and verified compatible by Western
Digital's FITLab(TM) and Pacific Digital. WD Raptor drives are designed to
deliver enterprise-class specifications with 1.2 million hours MTTF (Mean Time
To Failure), 10,000 RPM, 4.5 milliseconds (ms) average seek time, and a
five-year warranty. Combined with a SATA interface, the enterprise-class
mechanical and electronics platform of WD Raptor hard drives is designed to
meet the 24x7 demands of the enterprise environment. WD Raptor 74 GB drives
offer performance-boosting Ultra/150 Command Queuing (Ultra/150 CQ) technology,
as well as Rotary Accelerometer Feed Forward (RAFF) technology to maintain hard
drive performance in high vibration environments through adaptive compensation
of the servo system. WD Raptor 74 GB hard drives utilize Fluid Dynamic
Bearings (FDB) to reduce noise and increase long-term reliability. Additional
information about WD Raptor may be found on the Web at
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=65.
About Talon(TM)
Talon is Pacific Digital Corporation's industry-leading SATA controller
implementation that uses a combination of command-chaining and auto-polling
techniques to manage SATA hard drives that implement TCQ. These techniques
ease the CPU overhead and improve system performance. TCQ significantly
impacts networking and server application fields, allowing servers and RAID
array systems to sustain much higher data rates than existing non-TCQ SATA
controllers. Over and above faster data rates, these techniques provide the
real performance boost required for today's fast SATA hard disk drives. Talon's
groundbreaking use of the unique command chaining and auto polling techniques
lowers bus utilization for data transfers while simultaneously lowering
interrupt usage in order to efficiently use the queuing capabilities built into
WD Raptor 10,000 RPM SATA drives. Talon maximizes the ability of WD Raptor
hard drives to transfer data while minimizing host wait time to initiate
commands. Available now, the 2-Port Talon (U-302244) is available now at an
MSRP of $79 with the 4-port model (U-30245) at an MSRP of $99. Talon can be
found at Buy.com, NewEgg.com, PC Mall, PC Nation, Dartek, Amazon.com and other
dealers listed on the Pacific Digital Web site.
About Pacific Digital
Pacific Digital Corporation, established in 1996, is a leading supplier of
storage and multimedia solutions. Its Advanced Product Division's family of
ADMA solutions range from IC solutions for motherboard and disk controller OEMs
to an array of SATA and Ultra-ATA host adapters. These solutions enable
Pacific Digital customers -- system builders and manufacturers of computers
featuring mass storage subsystems -- to reduce costs and provide the highest
performance to their customers. Pacific Digital's Consumer Product Division
provides complete solutions with a focus on DVD and CD-ReWritable optical
technology and distributes to resellers via Ingram Micro and D&H, and direct to
consumers through Staples, OfficeMax, Sam's Club, Fry's Electronics,
DataVision, Dell, HardDrive.com and other fine resellers. For more information
about Pacific Digital, Corp., visit our website at
http://www.pacificdigital.com/
Pacific Digital(R) is a registered trademark, and Talon(TM), Zero Lag(TM) and
the stylized Talon claw logo are trademarks of Pacific Digital Corp. Western
Digital(R) is a registered trademark and WD Raptor(TM) and FITLab(TM) are
trademarks of Western Digital Technologies, Inc. All other trademarks are the
property of their respective owners.
DATASOURCE: Pacific Digital Corp.
CONTACT: Darryl Lloyd, +1-805-499-0562, , for Pacific
Digital Corp.; or Robert Horton of Pacific Digital Corp., +1-949-477-5724,
Web site: http://www.pacificdigital.com/