Compaq has designed the StorageWorks Enclosure Model 4200 family of products to provide consistent, highly available and high capacity storage for workgroup, departmental and data center needs. Intel or Alpha support, support for Smart Array PCI controllers or RAID Array external storage solutions, this flexible solution has been designed to accommodate you today and into the future. These repeater ASICs are being developed by the same companies that design and manufacture SCSI protocol ASICs and expect to have the chips available in 1H00. These drives will work along side today's Ultra2 drives in Compaq servers and storage enclosures. Yes, and because the Compaq StorageWorks Smart Array 4200 is the fastest benchmarked PCI array controller on the market today, we recommend you consider this your first choice.
Performance is primarily a factor of variables other than SCSI protocol.
The rotation speed and access times of the drives Since every server vendor has access to faster spindle disk drives, it is important to understand what a server vendor has done to optimize the other elements of the server IO to reach the highest possible performance characteristics of the underlying storage architecture. SCSI protocol changes alone will not increase overall performance in most cases. SCSI protocol changes must be accompanied by architectural improvements to impact performance gains. Compaq will introduce new Ultra3 array controllers with innovations that increase IO performance during 1H00. More information on the new performance architectures of the future will be available at the time of product introduction.