Snap Server Blitzes The Competition
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Mid-market storage maker Adaptec is crowing about the latext VeriTest results which show its Snap Server 550 outperforms the competition three fold.

Testing of the new Snap Server 550 and 520 networked storage solutions against competing departmental storage products from Hewlett Packard and Dell found that the Snap gear delivered the highest throughput scores as well as response times that were more than three times faster than the HP DL100 G2 and Dell PowerVault 745N, says the company in a statement.

The new 500 Series introduced in February are designed for distributed environments and small business deployments. This first mid-range NAS solutions built on AMD’s 64-bit Opteron architecture, supports both Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA) and delivers performance described as enterprise class by industry experts Toigo Partners.

According to Jon Toigo, “The introduction of the Model 550 Snap Server from Adaptec is nothing short of a watershed in the history of Network Attached Storage. This product blends the high performance, functionality and manageability that one would expect from an ‘enterprise class’ NAS solution with the economy of design and price tag usually associated with products aimed at small-to-medium-sized business requirements and budget.

In every category of our standard assessment methodology, the 550 is a clear and undisputed winner. We give an enthusiastic recommendation to any business seeking to drive the cost out of storage infrastructure while providing best-in-class support for common applications and workloads.”

High praise indeed! The Veritest report found he 550 and 520 posted throughput scores of 699.3 Mbits/second and 589.502 Mbits/second respectively compared to rates of 204.5 Mbits/second and 187.342 Mbits/second for the competition.”

The complete report can be downloaded at www.veritest.com/clients/reports/adaptec