Small Tree ships ATA-over-Ethernet
updated 12:30 pm EST, Mon December 11, 2006
Small Tree AoE ships
Small Tree Communications has expanded its storage options for Mac owners with ATA-over-Ethernet (AoE) technology, offering a variety of pre-configured JBOD (Just a Bunch of Disks) and RAID options with a Mac-like management graphical user interface that allows users to plug-and-play out of the box. "The real benefit for our customers lies in the striped performance that can be achieved across multiple Gigabit Ethernet links between clients and servers," said Steve Modica, Small Tree's Chief Technical Officer. "Today, people buy our multi-port Gigabit Ethernet cards to increase the aggregate bandwidth between their shared storage server and their network switch, but in many cases what they really want is to get striped Gigabit performance between their client Macs and the shared storage. AoE is the first technology available to Mac users that allows sustained performance in the 150-300MB/s range at a reasonable cost." Small Tree's entry level AOE-SR420 4-drive unit is shipping with a 1TB storage capacity for 3,600, while the first AOE-SR1520T 15-drive unit with 11.25TB of storage capacity ships for $14,500.
