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CPC5910 PRODUCT SHEET
High-Performance SATA Storage Expansion Blade
F E AT U R E S
High Density 6U x 2-Slot Storage
Expansion Blade
CompactPCI® and PICMG® 2.16
Compatible
4 TB Storage
Board-Level and Disk-Level
Hot-Swap
Headless Operation for Drive
Removal and Insertion
Two SATA Channels Routed to
the Mid-Plane
Dual Enterprise-Class 3.5-in.
SATA Hard Disk Drives
PICMG 2.9 Compatible with
Onboard IPMC
The CPC5910 is a high-performance, highavailability SATA expansion blade that
supports 4 TB of storage. Each blade features
two 3.5-in. Enterprise-class SATA hard drives
with both board-level and drive-level hotswap for complete flexibility and high
reliability. The CPC5910 can be connected to
the high-performance CPC5565 64-bit
Single Board Computer (SBC) to provide
additional storage capacity or to off-load the
locally attached single hard drive on the SBC,
which provides more reliability, higher
capacity, and higher performance.
Storage Capacity
Connectivity to the SATA interface is
achieved by employing a RTM4811 Rear
Transition Module with an external Multichannel SATA cable. Drive and blade
monitoring is possible with a serial
connection from the host blade to the front
or rear panel of the CPC5910. The
CPC5910 also supports IPMI-based
management with the onboard IPMC
controller.
Cost Control
With the flexibility to configure the hard
drives as needed inside the platform, the
CPC5910 lowers the overhead costs
associated with dedicated storage platforms
and simplifies infrastructure configuration.
The CPC5910 storage blade features two
Enterprise-class 3.5-in. SATA hard drives. As
storage manufacturers increase hard drive
capacity, Performance Technologies will
accommodate these new drives. Currently,
the CPC5910 includes two 2 TB 3.5-in.
Enterprise-class SATA hard drives. The
CPC5910 provides up to 4 TB of storage
when configured as a RAID 0 array or used
as stand-alone drives and 2 TB when
mirrored as a RAID 1 array.
Connecting to external network attached
storage can be expensive. It typically
requires separate chassis, sparing, cabling,
power delivery, and management tools.
Integrated storage is easily added to any
existing PICMG® 2.16 architecture. Discrete
system hard drives and external storage
devices can be consolidated inside a single
chassis. Sparing, hot-swapping, and
infrastructure configuration are greatly
simplified. In short, total cost of ownership
for storage is reduced.