Conduant Introduces StreamStor Amazon Express Storage Controller

The StreamStor Amazon Express is a full-size PCI Express card that can be installed in any PC with open PCI Express slots. It can support up to 16 SerialATA disk drives for a total capacity of 16 terabytes. With its onboard PowerPC processor, real-time operating system and StreamStor data engine, it operates independently of the host PC. Using direct card-to-card transfers over the PCI Express bus, the Amazon Express bypasses potential host-based bottlenecks, providing reliable, sustained recording and playback. With the introduction of the Amazon Express, multiple sources on the PCI Express bus can record simultaneously without performance loss. Amazon Express provides a true multi-channel recording system with unrivaled performance.

There’s a growing need for data interface systems for the popular PCI Express bus, said Ken Owens, CEO of Conduant. “We designed the StreamStor Amazon Express with the speed, reliability and flexibility our customers in the aerospace, scientific research, industrial and defense industries expect from us. Conduant has a long history of developing powerful recording and playback systems that meet the requirements of data-intensive applications.”

The StreamStor Amazon Express features more than seven hours of recording/playback capacity at 600 MB/s with the appropriate disk drives, and offers storage capacities from 250 MB to 16 TB. It provides simultaneous streaming (read/write), data forking, and wrap-mode recording, which have long been standard features of the Conduant StreamStor family of products.