IBM Corp’s AdStar Corp in San Jose says that six new models of the IBM 9570 Disk Array Subsystem are now available: the new models use RAID-5 architecture and support sustained data rates in excess of 60M-bytes per second over a HIPPI High Performance Parallel Interface: the 9570 stores up to 232Gb of data and can be installed on some ES/9000s and 3090s, the RS/6000 and a multitude of non-IBM machines; the new models – 020, 040, 120, 140, 220 and 240 – provide both RAID-1 mirrored data and RAID-5 distributed parity capability, while preserving RAID-3-like performance for large block transfers; no prices.
