Ciprico on Thursday announced that several of its MediaVault storage arrays are compatible with Apple’s newest Power Mac G5 systems. The latest update to the professional line of Mac desktop computers incorporate PCI Express (PCIe) expansion slots — MediaVault storage arrays use these slots in conjunction with ATTO host adapters.
The MediaVault 4Gb Fibre Channel RAID 4110, 4105 and 4210 are RAID storage systems calable of 300-500MB/sec sustained data transfer rates. The 4110 and 4210 models are rack-mountable; the 4105 is a desktop system. They’re switchable between RAID Level 0 and 3 configurations. Some configurations also support SCSI host adapters.
Ciprico targets the high-performance video editing market with the MediaVault products. Pricing was not immediately available.