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Press Release September 5, 2003
Aberdeen: Breaking Storage Barriers
The TeraBuster
Provides 4 Terabytes of SATA Storage for Under $12k Santa Fe Springs, California - Aberdeen LLC announces the newest addition to the revolutionary line of
Stirling all-inclusive storage and backup servers, the Aberdeen Stirling "TeraBuster."
Aberdeen President, Moshe Ovadya, announces, "After shocking the server storage
market with the 2 terabyte "Backup Monster" solution for under $5000 only
a few months ago, we have upped the ante with the introduction of our 4
terabyte 'TeraBuster.' Ovadya
further states, "By utilizing the new Serial ATA hard drive technology,
the 4U "TeraBuster" clearly defines new standards in price, performance and
packaging."
Businesses today, especially regulated financial
industries and e-businesses must focus on business continuity, which is
basically a plan for disaster recovery. Downtime can cost a company
thousands if not millions of dollars per hour. Traditional tape backup is
a tedious and time-consuming task in which there has been little progress
over the past several years. Aberdeen takes advantage of the inherent
benefits of disk-to-disk backup storage, such as greater flexibility,
scalability and a higher ROI to provide a better, faster and more
efficient disaster recovery and backup storage solution.
The Aberdeen "TeraBuster" establishes
a new server storage standard, by offering a 4U rackmount server with up
to 4 terabytes of SATA (Serial Advanced Technology Attachment) hot-swap storage space for under $12,000. SATA is a vast improvement over the
venerable IDE disk drives and provides several benefits. For
disk-to-disk data storage the primary benefit of SATA is the
faster and more efficient transfer rate. SATA uses
point-to-point technology that provides a starting transfer rate
of 150 Mbyte/s and connects the drive directly to the host
unlike the slower shared connection of standard IDE drives. Additional benefits
of using SATA drives include; redundant hot-plug support, backplane
compatibility, increased airflow and improved return on
investment. Speed, reliability and
cost efficiency are the essence of disk-to-disk data storage. By integrating SATA hard disk drives, the "TeraBuster" improves on
the advantage of disk backup over tape backup. Tape backup
has been historically tedious, expensive and time consuming. By
utilizing a hard disk backup solution, which is exponentially faster and
more accurate than the traditional tape backup, routine,
progressive and full backups can easily be scheduled within multiple OS
platforms for full interoperability in heterogeneous environments.
Aberdeen's storage solutions are designed to
provide a range of scalable and cost-efficient backup storage
solutions for a diverse range of shared network environments. Every Aberdeen "TeraBuster" server includes; 16 hot-swap/hot-spare drive bays
with storage capacity up to 4TB, dual gigabit NICs, an internal wall of
cooling fans and support for RAID 0,1,5 & 10. As with the "Backup Monster," the "TeraBuster" can be configured with either an
Intel® Pentium® 4 processor for the cost-efficient
companies or dual Intel® Xeon™ processors
for businesses that require the most computing power possible. Available options include; a tape drive, up to 16GB of memory, two internal OS hard drives, CD-RW, a triple redundant 600W power supply
and Dantz Development’s Retrospect™ backup software to provide data security, disaster recovery and file storage
capabilities. Businesses can now safely guard against downtime and
the loss of critical data with the Stirling line of backup servers.
Availability and Support:
The entry-level Stirling S416 "TeraBuster" and the Stirling X416 "TeraBuster" models are currently
shipping and can be custom configured to meet even the most stringent
requirement via the Aberdeen Web site (www.aberdeeninc.com)
or by contacting a sales executive at (800)552-6868. Aberdeen has a
media recognized, industry leading 5-year limited warranty as well as a free 10-day trial
assessment program with all of its branded server solutions.
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Media Contacts:
Trenton R. Baker
Marketing Supervisor
Aberdeen LLC
562-699-6998 x153
trentonb@aberdeeninc.com
Jack Tateel
VP of Sales
Aberdeen LLC
562-699-6998 x157
jackt@aberdeeninc.com
About Aberdeen:
Aberdeen LLC is a leading direct marketer of servers, computers and hardware. Voted among The Direct 100 vendors by PC Computing
magazine. Aberdeen designs, manufactures and customizes award-winning Aberdeen brand
computer systems and rackmount servers while offering an extensive selection of high performance peripherals.
For product sales, service or company information, call 800-552-6868 or visit www.aberdeeninc.com.
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