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SATA-to-SAS Disk Array From Winchester Systems

Up to 60TB and RAID-6

Winchester Systems Inc. announced a new SAS (Serial Attach
SCSI) hosted SATA disk
array that expands to 60 TB with 1 TB disk drives. As disk arrays
increase in size, so do the chances of a rebuild failure. The company
features RAID
6 dual parity to protect data during rebuilds.

The companys FlashDisk
SX-2302S
disk array provides up to 60 TB of storage using a 2U base unit that
includes a single RAID controller and 12 high capacity disks. The base
unit supports up to four 2U expansion shelves, each with 12 drives, for
a total of 60 high capacity SATA disk drives and provides outstanding
reliability and performance with very low cost per terabyte. The
SX-2302S also provides two SAS 4x wide host ports for convenient
multi-host connectivity. A dual redundant controller version, FlashDisk SX-2304R,
offers up to three expansion shelves with a total of 64 high capacity
SATA disk drives for up to 64 TB of total capacity. It also provides
four SAS 4x wide host ports to provide low cost SAN-In-A-Box
connectivity to as many as four servers without the need for expensive
adapters and switches.

The FlashDisk SX-2300 Series of 2U enclosure provides very high storage
density and fits 252 TB into a single 42U high rack in just six square
feet of floor space. FlashDisk SX-2300 Series disk arrays are perfect
for the highest capacity applications including deep archives, security
video, medical imaging, backup, snapshot, disaster recovery, virtual
tape library, data acquisition, digital imaging and audio. The unit
delivers impressive performance for SATA secondary storage device
delivering 1,150 MB per second sustained throughput and over 78,000 disk
I/O operations per second.

The FlashDisk 2300 Series is a SAS hosted
product that now offers storage professionals the ability to provide
very simple, low cost and exceptionally reliable multi-host connectivity
without the Fibre Channel infrastructure costs,"
according to Mr. Joel
Leider, the companys chief executive officer. This
is especially important for the largest imaging,
security, archiving,
and data
acquisition installations where simplicity, reliability, storage
density and low costs are key
."

The companys chief technology officer, Mr.
Jerry Namery explained, Winchester Systems
proudly features a unique high speed RAID 6, powered by a dedicated
hardware ASIC, to provide high-performance dual parity to protect
against two drive failures and to help ensure that critical disk
rebuilds, after a disk drive failure, are successful – especially
important with todays large arrays.

He added, The hardware ASIC is key to
creating a RAID 6 array that has sufficient power to provide high
performance.

The FlashDisk SX-2304R models using 1 TB disks are available now and
start at under $16,000. Delivery is 2-3 weeks ARO.

About Winchester Systems Inc.

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