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* Nov 6, 2008 * * OK… how about some details? On the right side, you’ll see the inside of the system, which looks very similar to the DS8700 model. The red highlights show where the new upgrades are, so we’ve got the new small-form-factor drives and drive enclosures at the top, the upgraded controllers near the middle, and the new 8Gb adapters at the bottom. Let’s start with the new drives and enclosures This new model will support only small-form-factor 2.5” drives. These will be the 6 Gb/s SAS-2 drives, which will provide not only faster performance than their 3.5” counterparts, but they’ll also provide higher reliability and scalability than the Fibre Channel interface provides a much lower cost. These drives offer all the enterprise attributes of the FC drives but at a lower cost and footprint. This is going to offer our clients outstanding space and energy efficiency benefits and faster performance. The drives offer better performance at the same rotational speeds, plus a 6 Gb/s transfer rate vs. 4 Gb/s, better energy usage per drive, at a lower cost per gigabyte. They also offer outstanding signal integrity and support longer cable lengths up to 10 meters. And since they’re smaller than the 3.5” drives, we’re able to pack many more drives into a frame than ever before. The result, of course, is better performance at a lower cost and with a more compact and efficient footprint. This has clients excited… very excited….mostly about the fact that they can have a dramatic effect on lowering their overall footprint in data center. One client is looking at consolidating at least a dozen older systems onto the DS8800. This has really become the most interesting benefit for most of the clients we’ve spoken with. In terms of options, we’ll be offering these 2.5” drives in SSD, 15k RPM and 10k RPM options Additional notes: Regarding SATA (7.2k RPM) options for 2.5” drives, I believe I saw that Seagate currently offers capacities up to 500GB, so we’re in no hur