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Proximity Data, Inc., founded in January 2003, is a privately held technology company specializing in the development and marketing of products enabling market proliferation of Serial ATA technology. Additionally, Proximity Data, Inc. provides engineering design services for companies predominantly involved in the data storage and computing industries. Proximity Data’s current technology partners include key corporate promoters of the SATA standards. Proximity Data, Inc. is a member of the Serial ATA 1.0 and Serial ATA II working groups (www.serialata.org). For more information regarding Proximity Data’s Serial ATA (SATA) product line and enabling software, please visit www.proximitydata.com.

SATA Raids the Datacenter - article by Engenio

"The debate on duty cycles and MTBF does not mean that SATA hard drives are more prone to crash than other technologies. Engenio's experience appears to suggest that SATA media must first endure an intensive burn-in process. Once accomplished, failure rates are equivalent to those of Fibre Channel and SCSI. This makes it the duty of the storage system manufacturer to ensure a long life for the medium by way of intensive tests and certification." ...read the article, ...Engenio profile, RAID systems, SATA

profile from featured press release May 7, 2004

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