Product category: Communications ICs (Wired)
News Release from: Oxford Semiconductor | Subject: OXFW912
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 07 January 2004
Bridge chip maximises disk drive speed
Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW912 FireWire800 to IDE bridge chip is enabling LaCie's new Big Disk Dual FireWire drive to achieve data transfer rates up to 88Mbyte/s.
Oxford Semiconductor's OXFW912 FireWire800 (IEEE1394b) to IDE (ATA7) bridge chip is enabling LaCie's new Big Disk Dual FireWire drive to achieve data transfer rates up to 88Mbyte/s LaCie's 4th generation Big Disk product is the first external drive to take full advantage of the wide range of speed enhancements introduced by Oxford's latest bridge chip in October 2003
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Oct 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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FireWire800/IDE bridge maximises data throughput
The OXFW912 is the first FireWire800 (IEEE1394b) to IDE (ATA7) bridge chip to maximise transfer rates for both single and dual disk drives, irrespective of data block size.
The high performance Big Disk Dual FireWire drive features two FireWire800 ports and a FireWire400 port and provides users with 500Gbyte of storage, a spindle speed of 7200rev/min and an 8Mbyte buffer.
Dominique Battelier, LaCie's R and D Director said, "Capacity, speed, plug and play - all the benefits of FireWire800 are offered by our Big Disk Dual FireWire product.
Oxford's OXFW912 gives the product RAID 0 speed without any configuration hassle making it ideal for video editing projects".
Oxford Semiconductor's CEO James Foster commented: "The LaCie drive truly is in a class of its own.
Using the full functionality of the OXFW912 bridge chip, it really does achieve the best possible speed performance.
It's a ground breaking product which we're proud to have been involved with".
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