2.5 inch HotBackup. Dual, Mirrored SCSI Solid State Drive
The CF2SCSI / SCSIFLASH HotBackup Drive enables the two CompactFlash (CF) cards to work as a synchronised pair providing increased resilience and fault-tolerance. The HotBackup Drive is available in 50-pin, 68-pin and 80-pin variants supporting 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch or larger 5.25 inch form factors and operates with CF cards of up to 256GB in capacity.
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FLASH2GUI - Optional ethernet support for centralised backup & restore capability available removing the need to rotate media. Primary data storage is always written to the CF card. No software change to the host required.
More details on FLASH2GUI backup & restore software click here
Solid State Disks Ltd, design and manufacture the Solid State SCSI SCSIFlash™ drive
Overview
Solid State Disks Ltd (SSD), the advanced storage systems design, development and integration specialist, has launched HotBackup, a solid state, CompactFlash-based dual drive for replacing ageing and failed SCSI-based legacy electro-mechanical storage systems including hard disk, magneto optical, tape and floppy drives.
Incorporating two CompactFlash drives, HotBackup enables the two CompactFlash (CF) cards to work as a synchronised pair providing increased resilience and fault-tolerance.
The Hot Standby drive is presented to the host system as a single logical drive.
This also allows the second CF card to be removed or dismounted for backup over the Ethernet port, giving a full disk image backup without dismounting the drive. The HotBackup functionality ensures that any previously paired CF card, maintains a log file of the sectors written so that it can be used to quickly re-synchronize with the removed or replaced second card to re-establish a mirrored pair.
For making full image backups, it also includes a remote dismount feature which operates independently from the control of the host system to enable any CF card in a synchronised pair to be taken offline with the minimum of operational interruption to the host. An image can be restored to a CF card either by inserting a backup CF card or writing to a CF card over the Ethernet port.
The HotBackup drive fully integrates with SSD’s FLASH2GUI network software which is used for control and configuration as well as network backup and restore operations.
HotBackup is ideally suited for use in process critical legacy computer systems where downtime for maintenance and backup cause major disruption and expense. These are found in a range of industries including telecommunications, semiconductor manufacturing, industrial process control, engineering and manufacturing, power generation, oil & gas, military & aerospace, flight simulation and post-production.
The Hot Standby drive is available in 50-pin, 68-pin and 80-pin variants supporting 2.5 inch, 3.5 inch or larger 5.25 inch form factors and operates with CF cards of up to 256GB in capacity.
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