Supermicro takes Serial ATA route at CeBIT

SERVER FIRM Supermicro said it will show off two Serial ATA (S-ATA) RAID products at its booth at CeBIT tomorrow.

The products are the the SW7033A-T, described as a high-end mini-tower server/workstation and a storage chassis which can take 15 S-ATA drives.

That's the SC942.

S-ATA drives are becoming more available than they were, but most people reckon they won't ship in volume across the different hard drive manufacturers until Q3/Q4 this year.

Supermicro is showing off a dual Xeon server board called the X5DP8-G2 using the 533MHz 3.06GHz chips Intel announced yesterday.

These support up to 16GB of interleaved DDR-266/200 SDRAM in eight DIMM sockets, six PCI-X slots, dual Gigabit controllers, an IPMI 1.6 option and graphics.

Supermicro said it will release 3U and 1U S-ATA external products in April which will support storage amounts of three terabytes (TB) and one TB. µ