Intel releases the first Atom platform for home storage servers

9th March, 2010 by adina
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Intel has announced at CeBIT the release of its first Atom-class processor platform optimized for small office and home storage markets. Single- and dual-core Atoms, D410 and D510 respectively, are meant for this purpose and they will run on Microsoft Windows Home Server and Linux operating systems. Intel estimates up to 50 percent power reduction versus the previous generation of Atoms.

Storage-grade Atom chips will ship from products made by LG, QNAP, LaCie, Techus and Synology. The N4B2 NAS of LG with its new 1.66GHz Atom D510 is believed to provide data streaming at 30Mbps within a local network for simultaneous access of 20 users. The single-core D410 is also rated at 1.66GHz clock speed.

The new Intel platform supports up to 12 USB inputs, 6 PCI Express lanes, eSATA ports and a port multiplier function. Data transfers between the home server or small office NAS (network-attached storage) are improved by a gigabit Ethernet MAC controller.

Intel has not revealed the prices of the new Atom processors and did not mention their release dates.


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