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Zero-Maintenance cache Protection

 Brief

Adaptec Zero-Maintenance Cache Protection

PMC-Sierra, Inc.

1380 Bordeaux Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089  USA   
Tel: +1 (408) 239-8000

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Pre-Sales Support:

 

US and Canada:

 1 (800) 442-7274 or (408) 957-7274 or [email protected]

 

UK: 

+44 1276 854 528 or [email protected]

 

Australia: 

+61-2-90116787

 

Singapore: 

+65-92351044

Estimating the cost of lost data is extremely hard to do. For 

example, in smaller companies it may take more than 24 hours 

to actually recover lost data causing further loss in productivity 

and revenue. In some instances there is an additional financial 

impact due to the cost of replacing/repairing whatever business 

impact may be caused by the loss — for example helping 

customers for whom banking or credit card transactions have 

gone missing.
In order to not offer ridiculous numbers that depend to a 

large degree on the nature of individual businesses, we simply 

comment that the strategy noted here has about a 1 in 700 

chance of suffering data loss (assuming that the system is 

exposed for around 6 hours, and two power failures occur  

per year).

The Bottom Line on Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)

Obviously there are other scenarios that we could consider. 
A favorite is to think of the driver who simply never changes 

their oil — they drive the car and hope that it makes it through. 

Sometimes you win, and the car makes it, sometimes you don’t 

and the engine needs to be replaced.

Regardless of these, we have considered two reasonable cases 

and the net result is:

Methodology

cost over 4-year Lifetime

taking proper care of your BBU

$2,480

reacting to BBU emergencies

$10,315 (Plus data loss risk)

Zero Maintenance cache Protection

Cost of the ZMCP module

Conclusion

By eliminating costly BBU technology and related expenses,  

the Adaptec Series 6 (6Gb/sec), Series 6Q with maxCache 2.0 

(6Gb/sec) and Series 5Z (3Gb/sec) family of RAID controllers 

with Zero Maintenance Cache Protection offer the industry’s 

most complete and efficient data protection solution available 

today.

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