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Winchester Systems Completes 9th Generation Disk Array Line High Performance 1U/2U/3U Tiered Storage With RAID 6
| Source: Winchester Systems Inc.
BURLINGTON, MA--(Marketwire - June 4, 2008) - Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data
storage solutions provider, today announced two new disk arrays that
completes a rollout of its 9th generation FlashDisk product line.
The FlashDisk
SX-2300 Series now offers both Fibre Channel and SAS host interfaces
with SAS and SATA disk drives in 2U enclosures that hold 12 drives in the
base unit and 12 drives in each of 4 expansion shelves for a maximum of 60
drives totaling 60 TB of tiered storage. The SX-2392S offers a single
controller and 2 Fibre Channel ports while the SX-2394R offers dual
redundant controllers and 4 Fibre Channel ports.
The complete FlashDisk SX Series product family now includes three models
that are comprised of 1U, 2U and 3U shelves that offer vast flexibility in
configuration and expansion. The product line supports Fibre Channel and
SAS host interfaces, SAS and SATA disks and expands to up to 80 TB.
The FlashDisk
SX-3400 Series also offers iSCSI interfaces with up to 8 iSCSI ports
that make the storage available on the network to multiple servers. With
Fibre Channel interfaces it provides "SAN-In-A-Box" connectivity to as many
as 8 servers directly without switches.
The FlashDisk
SX-1300 Series also supports 2.5" disk drives for Tier1+ performance
for database hot files. Also, the FlashDisk FC-3400 supports traditional
Fibre Channel disk drives again with "SAN-In-A-Box" connectivity for up to
8 servers.
All FlashDisk products support high-speed, ASIC-powered RAID 6 that run
applications at full performance and provides dual parity for exceptional
data protection. According to the company's white paper, "Enterprise RAID 6," RAID 6 dual parity offers 500 to 30,000 times
longer MTDL (Mean Time To Data Loss) than RAID 5. An informative 6-minute
presentation "RAID 6 Essentials" is also available. The company offers a
16-page Product Catalog that summarizes the offerings.
The company's chief technology officer, Mr. Jerry Namery, explained, "This
9th generation of FlashDisk products represent the finest collection of
storage offerings in our 27 year history. Customers can literally
configure a solution to match the characteristics of each data set to the
price, performance, reliability and power consumption of the storage device
and manage it from a single console. Thus their investment is maximized in
a tangible manner that is immediately rewarded with lower costs, improved
application performance and an improved bottom line."
Available now, the FlashDisk SX-2300 Fibre Channel models start under
$15,000. Delivery is 2-3 weeks ARO.
About Winchester Systems Inc.
Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached
storage, tiered-storage, storage area network and enterprise data storage
solutions for commercial, industrial, healthcare, education, government and
military applications. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, SAS,
SCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays; tape backup devices and
other high performance commercial and military grade data storage for
mid-range servers including Windows, Windows Clusters, Linux, Linux
Clusters, and UNIX. For more information visit Winchester Systems on the
web at www.winsys.com.