3ware appears to be months ahead of most of its major competitors. Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE: HWP) and IBM Corp. (NYSE: IBM), for instance, are not expected to start shipping iSCSI-based storage boxes until early 2002.
3ware's engineering team had to compromise on some features in order to get the size of the new product down. For example, hot-swappable disk drives are not available on the new version. Getting rid of this and other minor features meant 3ware could reduce the physical size of the box by 75 percent (from 4U down to 1U).
The vendor also reduced the power consumption of the system by 50 percent by spinning down disks -- shutting them down temporarily when they are not in use.
The new product burns 250 volts of power. That's around half as much as the 400 -- and one quarter of the current required by conventional high-end storage arrays, 3ware says. That can lead to substantial savings in power costs, says Vrolyk. "In California, you would save $37,000 over five years. The [Palisade 100] costs $20,000, so it pays for itself in electricity savings."
For anyone whos really keen on having hot-swappable disks, 3ware plans to continue selling the older system as well.
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