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Rocket Drive Product Overview

How does the Rocket Drive work?
Rocket Drive acts as a hard disk, but is made from SDRAM. It is designed to be the functional equivalent of a magnetic “disk”, but with vastly greater performance. To the system, the Rocket Drive looks like a hard drive, acts like a hard drive, and is a transparent replacement for a traditional hard disk. Because the Rocket Drive has a bus-attached design, it is inserted into a PCI slot inside the host computer and interfaces directly to it without the need for SCSI, Fibre Channel or other connections.
What are the performance specifications of the Rocket Drive?
Data transfer rates on the Rocket Drive reach up to 132 MB per second (burst rate) and 80 to 100 MB per second (sustained rate), depending on system load. These rates represent speeds that are two-to-five times faster than conventional SSDs and thousands of times faster than standard hard disk drives.
How many configurations of the Rocket Drive are available?
CENATEK™ is offering the product in a variety of models with memory configurations from 512 MB to 4 GB.
How can the Rocket Drive scale to provide additional storage capacity?
The Rocket Drive provides the capability to scale with each available PCI slot. For example to achieve 8 GB capacity, install two 4 GB units. CENATEK has successfully tested six units in one server.
What are the minimum system requirements for installation of the Rocket Drive?
The Rocket Drive can be successfully installed on a broad range of computers including those offered by vendors such as Compaq®, Hewlett-Packard®, IBM® and Sun®. The only requirement is a free PCI slot.
What operating systems does the Rocket Drive support?
The Rocket Drive supports the following operating systems:
  • Microsoft® Windows® 2000
  • Windows XP®
  • Windows NT®
  • Red Hat Linux®
  • FreeBSD®
The following operating systems are under development:
  • UNIX (HP-UX®, Sun Solaris®, IBM® AIX)
  • Microsoft Windows 98®
How easy is the Rocket Drive to operate and maintain?
Installing a Rocket Drive takes less than ten minutes and does not require special software. The manual modes are also user-friendly.
Can end-users install memory modules into the Rocket Drive?
The Rocket Drive is sold in four different capacities and utilizes high quality, certified memory modules to insure product reliability. End-users installing memory modules could reduce the reliability of the Rocket Drive and will violate the Manufacture’s warranty.
What happens to data on the Rocket Drive after a power loss?
The Rocket Drive provides an external power supply A/C power cable for connecting to a secondary power source. Most customers concerned with power loss have a UPS.