StreamStor® Amazon Express Storage Controller

Overview

The Conduant Corporation StreamStor® Amazon Express storage controller provides recording and playback capability at more than 800 MB/s. Support is provided for up to 16 SATA disk drives for a maximum total capacity of 16 terabytes (using 1 TB disk drives). With the appropriate disk drives the Amazon Express controller can provide more than seven hours of recording or playback capability at 800 MB/s.

Features

• Sustained recording and playback at more than 800 MB/s
• Multi source card-to-card PCI Express recording
• PCI Express 8 lane bus interface
• Mezzanine card bus to add external data I/O interfaces
• Capacity from 250 MB to 16 TB
• On-board PowerPC and real-time operating system
• 16 SATA disk interfaces
• 2048 MB (2 GB) memory buffer
• Record card-to-card from PCI acquisition cards
• Scatter/gather DMA to/from host memory

Specifications

Using direct card-to-card transfers over the PCI Express bus, or direct data input from available external digital interfaces, the Conduant Amazon Express provides reliable and sustained recording or playback without the threat of host software or OS bottlenecks. With an on-board PowerPC processor, real-time operating system and StreamStor® data engine, the Amazon Express operates independently of the host to provide guaranteed performance without interruption.

The Amazon Express has been specifically designed to support high-speed data streaming applications such as:

• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• High speed data acquisition
• Radar and sonar
• Medical Imaging
• Satellite download
• High resolution video
• Waveform generation

The Amazon Express is a full-size PCI Express card that can be installed in nearly any standard PC with open PCI Express slots. The controller also supports advanced StreamStor® functionality including circular recording (wrap mode) and direct recording from PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express sources.

The maximum capacity is 16 TB (Using 16 - 1 TB drives) at a maximum data rate of 800 MBytes/sec. The maximum recording duration is (500 MB/s) 8 hours (500 MB/s using 16 TB) via the 16 SATA drive interfaces. The bus interface is PCI Express x8 and the board form factor is full size PCI Express. The power requirements are typically 2.1A @ 12V (25W). The StreamStor® Amazon Express features scatter/gather support and has an onboard buffer memory of 2048 MB (2 GB).

Ordering Information

AMEX-SATA

StreamStor Disk Controller, 8x PCI Express, 16x SATA PCIe Board Format