STORAGE

MILPITAS, CA -- LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc., a leading supplier of innovative storage solutions for the open enterprise, today announced general availability of two gigabit per second fibre channel host connectivity in the new MetaStor(R) E4600 storage system. The MetaStor E4600 storage system supports up to four concurrent Fibre Channel host connections at a rate of two gigabits per second each. Because of its higher transfer rate and an increase in input/output (I/O) operations per second, customers can attach more and faster servers from many vendors to a single E4600 with larger quantities of disk storage, including new, 180 gigabyte disk drives. "The MetaStor E4600 redefines the storage systems price-performance curve," said Tom Georgens, president of LSI Logic Storage Systems, Inc. "As a result, the sophisticated replication, back-up, and disaster recovery systems that were once affordable by only a few companies can now be afforded by thousands of them." In database-intensive environments, the MetaStor E4600 can deliver up to 110,000 I/Os per second. The MetaStor E4600 can also deliver 390 megabytes per second of sustained throughput for applications requre Technology Infrastruture, Drexel University. "The MetaStor E4600 is the fastest storage system we have ever installed, and it is rock solid. We couldn't be more pleased with its performance." In addition to two gigabit fibre channel connectivity, the MetaStor family of storage systems scales a thousand fold, from 36 gigabytes to 39 terabytes of on-line data storage. In direct attach, storage area network (SAN) or network attached storage (NAS) configurations, MetaStor systems support AIX, CIFS, HP-UX, http, IRIX, Linux, Mac(R)OS, NetWare, NFS, Solaris, Windows NT, and Windows 2000. The MetaStor E4600 also features new software for centralized administration, replication, and scalability control. For more information, please see the SANtricity(TM) 8.0 announcement. For more information visit www.lsilogicstorage.com