April.29, .2004 ---Taipei, Taiwan--- GIGABYTE Technology announces today a high performance and value-priced, fiber-to-fiber storage array GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ. With this new storage product GIGABYTE is officially entering the storage system product line.

The GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ provides a flexible, scalable storage solution. Designed to deliver extremely fast access to stored information without compromising data integrity, the GS-SS301F combines superior performance and high reliability in an easy-to-manage solution and the GS-SS301FJ brings the capability of large capacity expansion.

By fully integrating high performance, active/active RAID controllers, software and automatic environmental monitoring, the GS-SS301F assures high data availability. Advanced scalability features provide investment protection. As your storage demands continue to grow, you can easily interconnect GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ to create an extremely large storage system

• High-performance RAID – 100,000 cached IOPs , more than 350 MB/sec sequential RAID-5 read from disk (GS-SS301F only)
• Transparent fail over support for dual-active controllers (GS-SS301F only)
• Java 2-based client/server RAID management suite (GS-SS301F only)
• Scalable to 17.5 TB per subsystem capacity (GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ)
• 2 Gb/sec Fiber Channel host attachment and device compatibility (GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ)
• High availability through redundant, hot-swappable components (GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ)

• Business Financial
• Customer Management Solutions
• Decision Support Data Warehouse
• Electronic Commerce
• Enterprise Resource Planning
• ISV Solutions
• Software Development
• Technical Applications

• Media/Entertainment/Publishing
• Education
• Financial Services
• Government
• Manufacturing
• Retail Trade
• Telecommunications

The GS-SS301F and GS-SS301FJ help ensure data availability by utilizing fully redundant, hot-swappable, active/active RAID controllers, disk drives, power units and cooling components. RAID levels 0, 1, 0+1, 5, 10, 50 and JBOD (just bunch of disks) are supported.