Ciprico to Launch MediaVault 5116 Solution for Mac OSX

Ciprico Inc. will launch its MediaVault 5116 PCI
express (PCIe)
direct attached storage solution at the Macworld Conference and Expo on
January 15-18 in San Francisco. The MediaVault 5116 is the second member
of the award-winning MediaVault 5100 series, adding for the first time
support for the Mac OS X operating system, further enabling unmatched
storage performance for content creation.

Mac OS X users may now greatly enhance their ability to quickly complete
their video production and content creation projects with the ultimate
in performance, flexibility and reliability delivered by this new member
of the MediaVault family. With this new desktop or rack-mount 16 drive
solution, video editors and production professionals may now enjoy the
highest performance achievable at an affordable price, while supporting
capacities of up to 16 terabytes.

Based on Ciprico’s signature RAIDCore
technology, the MV5116 will support both SAS and SATA II drives while
connecting to the host computer at data rates five times faster than 4G
Fiber Channel solutions. Utilizing the latest SAS disk drives, the 5116
has demonstrated streaming performance of up to 1.4GByte/s, making it
one of the first products to support two 2K video streams
simultaneously. Furthermore, the rich management and scalability
features of the MV5116 make it an ideal direct attach storage expansion
unit for servers such as Apple’s Xserve,
providing up to 16TB of ultra high performance storage via a single PCI
express expansion slot.

“The best solutions are the simplest, and by
extending the PCIe bus into the MV5116, an editor working on a Mac Pro
will enjoy the greatest bandwidth, 20Gbps, with the lowest latency at
the lowest cost,” said Steven Merrifield,
President and CEO of Ciprico. “Our MediaVault
series has been making a big impact in the rich media production and
performance storage expansion industries, and it’s
only fitting that we help enhance the experience for those using the
leading operating system currently available for content creation.”

The MediaVault 5100 solutions come all inclusive with a host interface
board (HBA), Ciprico’s RAIDCore software
installed and all necessary adapters and cables. Easy to install, easy
to configure and scalable by as few as one drive at a time to meet
current and future needs, the MediaVault solutions for Mac OS X achieve
price performance and flexibility with a rich set of features that are
unmatched in the Mac market.

Ciprico Inc.