Raid Store introduces green feature

New Delhi: Raid Store has positioned itself as a leader in iSCSI / IP
SAN and SAS. Seeing as green in the latest trend to hit IT companies, Raid Store
has also decided to capitalize on the opportunity. Speaking about their latest
green initiatives, Bhavya Jain, Country Sales Manager-Storage and Surveillance
shared, "Raid Store's new green feature for its Raid Subsystems includes
Automatic Disk Spin Down. This feature makes Raid sub systems green and help
customers to reduce the overall disk power consumption."

Throwing more light on Raid Store products, Jain said, "Energy Saving has
been an important issue for both environment protection and power cost. The hard
drives consume most power in the sub systems. But in many applications, such as
e-mail backup storage, data pool, etc, there is no or few I/O access after
office hour or the systems have regular access time. If those less-accessed hard
drives can be spinning down when I/O access opportunity is low, the overall
power cost can be reduced. Take a data pool equipped with 16 1TB SATA II drives
for example, and usually there is no access from 7:00PM to 9:00AM, Raid Store
controller can trigger hard drives to spin down. By comparing the hard drives'
power consumption, customers can save at least 50 percent of disk power cost. If
a sub system is used for backup and rarely accessed, with proper configuration,
customers can save up to 70 percent

of disk power cost."

Raid Store's Automatic Disk Spin Down feature is different from MAID
technology. Raid Store spin down feature is to keep disks spinning until they
are not needed which is opposite to MAID technology.

Raid Store Automatic Disk Spin Down is available for all of its Raid Sub
Systems.

Raid Store products are available in India through Fortune Marketing, its
national distributor.