CPC5910

High-Performance SATA Storage Expansion Blade

  • High-Density 6U x 2-Slot Storage Expansion Blade
  • CompactPCI® and PICMG® 2.16 Compatible
  • 800 GB or 2 TB Storage
  • Board-Level and Disk-Level Hot-Swap
  • Headless Operation for Drive Removal and Insertion
     

The CPC5910 is a high-performance, high-availability SATA expansion blade that supports 800 GB or 2 TB of storage. Each blade features two 3.5-in. Enterprise-class SATA hard drives with both board-level and drive-level hot-swap for complete flexibility and high reliability. The CPC5910 can be connected to the high-performance CPC5564 64-bit Single Board Computer (SBC) to provide additional storage capacity or to off-load the locally attached single hard drive on the SBC, which provides more reliability, higher capacity, and higher performance.

Connectivity to the SATA interface is achieved by employing a RTM4810 Rear Transition Module with an external Multilane SATA cable. Drive and blade monitoring is possible with a serial connection from the host blade to the front or rear panel of the CPC5910. The CPC5910 also supports IPMI-based management with the onboard IPMC controller.

With the flexibility to configure the hard drives as needed inside the platform, the CPC5910 lowers the overhead costs associated with dedicated storage platforms and simplifies infrastructure configuration.

Storage Capacity

The CPC5910 storage blade features two Enterprise-class 3.5-in. SATA hard drives. As storage manufacturers increase hard drive capacity, Performance Technologies will accommodate these new drives. Currently, the CPC5910 includes either two 400 GB or two 1 TB 3.5-in. Enterprise class SATA hard drives. The CPC5910 provides up to 2 TB of storage when configured as a RAID 0 array or used as stand-alone drives and up to 1 TB when mirrored as a RAID 1 array.

Cost Control

Connecting to external network attached storage can be expensive. It typically requires separate chassis, sparing, cabling, power delivery, and management tools. Integrated storage is easily added to any existing PICMG® 2.16 architecture. Discrete system hard drives and external storage devices can be consolidated inside a single chassis. Sparing, hot-swapping, and infrastructure configuration are greatly simplified. In short, total cost of ownership for storage is reduced.

Headless Operation

While some storage solutions require console access to remove or add a hard drive, the CPC5910 features “Automated Drive Management,” (ADM), which doesn’t require logging into the system. Automated Drive Management allows safe extraction of drives without data corruption by deactivating drives prior to drive removal. An LED on the front panel indicates when the drive is ready for removal. Automated Drive Management automatically detects, configures, and remounts a newly inserted drive into the RAID array or file system. There are multiple LED indicators for each drive to communicate drive status to the user. The ADM system is completely user configurable to customize the actions performed on drive extraction, insertion events, and the behavior of the LED indicators on the front panel.


 

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