Atto Faststream Offers Data Protection; Technical Features; System Memory; Expansion Slot - ATTO Technology FastStream SC 5500E Installation And Operation Manual

1.0 ATTO FastStream Offers Data Protection

The ATTO FastStream SC 5500E, 7500E and 8500E provide blazing-fast performance and RAID protection in an
embeddable ATX form factor.
With 4 Gigabit per second (Gb/sec.) Fibre Channel
host connections and 3 Gb/sec. SAS drive
connections, the ATTO FastStream provides
unprecedented flexibility while adding RAID protection
without compromising performance.
ATTO FastStream Embeddable Storage Controllers
are high performance RAID storage devices which can
be seamlessly integrated into an ATX enclosure.
ATTO FastStream FC to SAS RAID controllers are
ideally suited for bandwidth intensive applications
such as digital film, video and audio as well as medical
imaging, digital prepress and disk to disk backup.
While RAID improves data accessibility and reliability
during normal operations, you still need a good
backup strategy for long-term protection of your data.

Technical features

• MicroATX form factor: conforms to industry-
standard MicroATX form factor specification for
board size, board mounting locations and
expansion slot placement.
• Intel 81348 processor
• 8 independent SAS/SATA ports
• SC 7500 supports up to 128 disk drives
• SC 5500 supports up to 64 disk drives
• Internal wide-SAS Small Form Factor (SFF)
8484 connectors
• Optional external (x4) miniSAS SFF8080
connector for JBOD expansion
• SES (SCSI Enclosure Services)
• RS-232 management port with a back panel
accessible RJ11 interface
• 10/100/1000 Megabits per second (Mb/sec.)
Ethernet management port with an RJ45
connector and integrated LEDs
• 8 MB Flash
• LED status for link and speed
• Manual reset switch to reboot the Storage
Controller
• Battery-backed event log asynchronous SRAM
• System monitoring hardware
• Real time clock
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• SCSI Enclosure Services (SES)

System memory

• One 240-pin DDR2 SDRAM DIMM connector
• Supports 512 MB of unbuffered, ECC DDR2-533
SDRAM DIMM
• Qualified DIMM: Kingston Technology
KVR533D2E4/512; RoHS compliant

Expansion slot

• One PCIe expansion slot, x8 electrical and
mechanical widths aligned with expansion slot 7
of the standard ATX form factor
• Conforms to the PCIe Base 1.0a and CEM
specifications
• Accepts either a 2- or 4-port 4 or 8-Gb Celerity
PCIe Host Adapter as the host port interface
• Host adapter is oriented perpendicular to the
FastStream SC board and can be mounted
parallel with a 90º angle adapter

RAID protection features

• Hardware DVRAID, RAID Level 0, 1, 4, 5, 6,1+0
and JBOD, all user configurable
• N-way mirroring
• Global Hot Spares to ensure continuous
operation if a drive fails. The Hot Spare
automatically comes on-line and rebuild starts if
a disk failure is detected
• Automatic rebuild of RAID groups and
changeable Rebuild Priority keep the system
operational if a drive fails
• Support for large LBAs (64-bit operating
systems), partitions, partial data transfer to
improve performance and minimizes memory
use, and spanning

Audio/video features

• DVRAID provides performance for up to 22
streams of SD video or 6 streams of 10-bit
uncompressed HD video.
• Support for video on demand
• Support for multiple streams of audio