Rochester, NY 8/27/2009 3:32:40 PM
Intel AMD products for higher cost high performance for lower cost
Intel Corporation INTC
The chip strategies of data storage vendors can never be neatly lumped into one basket, but they are getting pretty similar. So what's going on? From to Sun storage vendors seem to be turning more and more to x86 and commodity architectures for their arrays. In general, storage vendors appear to be using Intel and AMD products for higher-cost, higher-performance applications, and using custom chips for lower-cost, lower-performance ones.
"Many vendors are using Intel chips and chipsets that have built-in support for XOR and P+Q computations needed for RAID-6," said Brent Welch, director of software architecture at high-performance storage vendor Panasas. "Intel's i7 platform is quite powerful, and coupled with the XOR and P+Q features; it can eliminate the need for ASICs."
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