Symwave has released a single chip USB 3.0 to dual SATA storage controller SW6318, which it claims to provide transfer speeds up to 400MB/sec.
The company claims that the performance of the device is more than ten times faster than current RAID storage devices based on USB 2.0 technology and utilises the speed and system level improvements that USB 3.0 technology offers.
According to Symwave, its architecture bridges data from a USB 3.0 host to two SATA-II hard disk drives (HDDs) or solid state drives (SSDs) and its SW6318 System-on-Chip (SoC) is compliant with USB 3.0 and SATA-II specifications, and includes a hardware RAID engine with support for drive performance doubling (RAID 0) and data integrity mirroring (RAID 1), as well as AES hardware encryption engines.
The company said that the SW6318 is compliant with the USB-IF certification and compliance program requirements for SuperSpeed USB devices. It is compatible with all Windows mass storage class drivers and also supports USB Attached SCSI (UAS).
The new offering is software-compatible with SW6316 USB 3.0 to SATA storage controller, and allows customers to leverage their design effort and launch multiple storage products from low-end consumer to the high-end professional storage markets, the company claims.
Symwave offers customers a software development kit (SDK), including reference design hardware, firmware, software, tools and documentation to enable hardware and software customisation.
John O’Neill, VP of marketing at Symwave, said: “The SW6318 delivers the greater storage capacity, faster data transfers, and the ultimate data protection that consumers and professionals demand with their ever increasing accumulation of digital content of all types. The SW6318 enables our customers to combine two low-cost drives to create robust storage products with data integrity or transfer speeds faster than all other competing technologies combined.”
