StreamStor® Amazon Express Storage Controller

The StreamStor® Amazon Express storage controller provides recording and playback capability at more than 800 MB/s. Support is provided for up to 16 SATA disk drives for a maximum total capacity of 16 terabytes (using 1 TB disk drives). With the appropriate disk drives the Amazon Express controller can provide more than seven hours of recording or playback capability at 800 MB/s.

Using direct card-to-card transfers over the PCI Express bus, or direct data input from available external digital interfaces, the Amazon Express provides reliable and sustained recording or playback without the threat of host software or OS bottlenecks. With an on-board PowerPC processor, real-time operating system and StreamStor® data engine, the Amazon Express operates independently of the host to provide guaranteed performance without interruption.

The Amazon Express has been specifically designed to support high-speed data streaming applications such as:

• Digital Signal Processing (DSP)
• High speed data acquisition
• Radar and sonar
• Medical Imaging
• Satellite download
• High resolution video
• Waveform generation

The Amazon Express is a full-size PCI Express card that can be installed in nearly any standard PC with open PCI Express slots. The controller also supports advanced StreamStor® functionality including circular recording (wrap mode) and direct recording from PCI, PCI-X and PCI Express sources.