NextComputing Revs Up Data Throughput Rates

By DE Editors

NextComputing (Nashua, NH) added newhigh-speed hard drives from SeagateTechnology (Scotts Valley, CA) to its already-impressive storage performanceof its mobile computers. Seagate’s 500GB Momentus 7200 RPM SATA drives, andSavvio 300GB 10K RPM and 147GB 15K RPM SAS drives, are now available on allNextDimension flextops and Vigor rugged portables.

The newfaster spin rate Savvio SAS drives with 10K and 15K RPM technology allow ahigher level of sustained data rates with fewer drives. This is relevant tousers in the military, test & measurement, and broadcast & digital mediaindustries where high-speed data transfer rates are essential across a number ofapplications.

Savvio 10Kand 15K RPM drives boost the performance of this type of application and reducethe number of drives needed in a RAID subsystem, maximizing productivity anddecreasing overall hardware investment. The drives are the first to operate at a6Gbps transfer rate and provide more transactional performance density than anyother drive. Savvio reinforces NextComputing’s aim to bring enterprise-classcomputing to the small form factor computing appliance, by incorporatingfeatures of enterprise class 3.5-in. drives in the smaller, 2.5-in.package.

Theaddition of Seagate Momentus 500GB drives maximizes the removable storageoptions on both the NextDimension Evo and Vigor Evo systems. Up to fourremovable hard drives are available, with a total capacity of 2TB, unprecedentedon a portable workstation.

All harddrive options are available in various configurations on the NextDimension Pro,Pro HD, Evo, and Evo HD, as well as the Vigor Pro SD and Vigor Evo HDmodels.

Fordetails, visit Seagate or NextComputing.

Sources:Press materials received from the company and additional information gleanedfrom the company’s website.