Silicon Image, Inc. designs, develops and markets multi-gigabit semiconductor solutions for the secure transmission and storage of rich digital media. The company's mission is to be the leader in defining the architectures, intellectual property (IP) and semiconductor technology required to build secure digital content delivery systems. To fulfill that mission, Silicon Image's strategy entails establishing industry-standard, high-speed digital interfaces and building market momentum and leadership through its first-to-market, standards-based IC products. Further leveraging its strong IP portfolio, the company broadens market adoption of the Digital Visual Interface (DVI), High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and Serial ATA (SATA) interfaces by licensing its proven IP cores to companies providing advanced system-on-a chip solutions that incorporate these interfaces.
Steelvine
External SATA Storage Appliance Available in 800GB, 1.25TB and 2TB Capabilities
The SV2000 provides up to two terabytes of disk storage within the industry's first implementation of the SteelVine™ architecture. The SteelVine architecture enables flexible configuration in presenting multiple virtual volumes with different properties, depending on user requirements. The SV2000 supports both 1.5 Gb/s and 3Gb/s Serial ATA transfer rates, and can aggregate commands to-and-from each drive for maximum performance.
Solution benefits:
Simple - no setup required, just plug into a SATA host
Reliable - provides enhanced data security from loss due to disk failure
Affordable - a high-value solution, at a fraction of the cost for traditional RAID systems
Scalable - up to 2 TB per appliance - multiple appliances can be used
Solution applications:
High-performance storage appliance suitable for business or home use
Ideal for common applications such as Microsoft Exchange™ or SQL
Reliable back-up appliance with short back-up times direct to disk
Data migration or remote archiving with hot-swapable drives
Easy expansion for notebooks, desktop PC's, servers or consumer electronic devices
Taiwan
