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At last week's National Association of Broadcasters convention in Las Vegas, several vendors rolled out products featuring a new, high-bandwidth interface called Low Voltage Differential Ultra2 SCSI-3.
The Low Voltage Differential (LVD) Ultra2 specification supports a maximum data transfer rate of 80 Mbytes per second, double the rate of the current Ultra SCSI-3 standard. In addition, it can handle more devices per bus and its longer cable lengths let managers place storage as far away as 60 feet from a workstation, useful in a noise-sensitive environment such as a video studio.
Hard drive vendors Quantum Corp. and Seagate Technology Inc. have embraced the standard with new LVD Ultra2 mechanisms.
Quantum in March released new OEM models in its 7,200-rpm Viking and Atlas lines. The Viking II is available as a 9- or 4.5-Gbyte drive for $895 and $595, respectively. It has an average seek time of 8 milliseconds and a sustained data transfer rate of 11.5 Mbytes per second.
The Atlas III comes in 9- and 18-Gbyte capacities priced at $1,020 and $1,620, respectively, with average seek times of 7.5 milliseconds and sustained transfer rates of 12 Mbytes per second, the Milpitas, Calif.-based Quantum said.
Seagate also updated two OEM hard drives to the LVD Ultra2 standard. Released in late March, the Barracuda 9- and 18-Gbyte LVD ...