Sonnet Announces Five-Year Warranty

Sonnet Technologies, Inc. announced a new standard five-year limited warranty on professional Fusion storage systems and Tempo SATA host controllers.

Effective for new products purchased after January 1, 2010, the new warranty covers Fusion 4-, 5-, 8-, and 16-drive D-, DX-, R-, and RX-series systems (including Sonnet-supplied hard disk drives and RAID controller cards), as well as Tempo SATA E4P, X4P, and Pro ExpressCard/34 host controllers. The 5-year warranty on Sonnet Fibre Channel Storage Systems covers all units previously purchased.

"We have built a solid reputation as a provider of highly reliable storage systems, and are proud to provide our customers with a five-year warranty, which is one of the longest in the industry," said Robert Farnsworth, CEO of Sonnet Technologies. "Our customers can select from a wide range of Fusion storage solutions and choose the features that best suit their particular application — from 4-drive, quad interface basic storage systems to shared Fibre Channel systems — with full confidence that their investment will be supported by Sonnet for years to come."

Desktop and rackmount Fusion products
covered by the new warranty include:

• Fusion D400QR5/R400QR5 — 4-drive hardware RAID 5 storage systems with quad interfaces
• Fusion R400P — 4-drive SATA storage system with port multiplier and eSATA interface
• Fusion D500P — 5-drive SATA storage system with port multiplier and eSATA interface
• Fusion D800P2 — 8-drive SATA storage system with dual port multipliers and eSATA interfaces
• Fusion D800RAID/R800RAID — 8-drive SATA storage system with PCI Express RAID controller
• Fusion DX800RAID — 8-drive SATA storage system with internal SAS expander and PCI Express RAID controller
• Fusion RX1600RAID — 16-drive RAID SATA storage system with internal SAS expanders and PCI Express RAID controller
• Fusion RX1600Fibre — 16-drive RAID shared Fibre Channel storage system