Appliance is available for Serial ATA disk drives; provides 7.5 TB of storage; available for $3,995.

Coraid, Inc., a provider of ethernet networked storage, last week announced that its EtherDrive Storage product is available for Serial ATA disk drives.

Coraid has upgraded its EtherDrive Storage appliance with a list of features. The new chassis design includes 15 swap drive bays which accommodate standard SATA disk drives. The new shelf offers a dual GigE Interface, redundant swap power modules and fans. Using 500 GB drives, the new Coraid shelf provides 7.5 TB of storage.

This appliance uses the AoE (ATA over Ethernet) protocol, for networked storage. Using Ethernet connections, EtherDrive Storage Blades appear to servers on the network as locally attached disks. EtherDrive Storage can be assembled into large RAID sets and storage volumes. The SATA EtherDrive shelf has dual GigE connections where a single shelf can provide 200MB of storage access throughput. The new SATA EtherDrive Storage costs $3,995.