Winchester Systems Expands Tiered SAS/SATA Disk Array to 80 TB

Winchester Systems Inc. announced a new tiered SAS/SATA disk
array that expands to 80 TB of primary and secondary storage in a
single solution that are available for both SAS and Fibre Channel hosts.
For added protection of today’s very large
RAID disk arrays, the company includes high-speed, ASIC-driven RAID 6
dual-parity that protects data in the event of two drive failures as
well as rebuild failures.

The company’s FlashDisk
SX-3402S
disk array provides up to 80 TB of storage using a 3U base unit that
includes a single RAID controller and 16 high capacity disks. The base
unit supports up to four 3U expansion shelves, each with 16 drives, for
a total of 80 high capacity SAS and/or SATA disk drives. SAS drives
provide outstanding performance with 10K rpm and 15K rpm disk drives
with capacities of 146 GB, 300 GB and 400 GB for primary applications
including database, transaction processing, video and other high
performance requirements. The SATA drives with capacities of 500 GB, 750
GB and 1 TB provide outstanding reliability and performance with very
low cost per terabyte for deep archives, security video, medical
imaging, backup, snapshot, disaster recovery, virtual tape library, data
acquisition, digital imaging and audio. This model offers two SAS 4x
wide host ports for direct attach to up to two servers. The company’s
SX-3494S model offers four 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports.

FlashDisk SX-3404R,
with dual redundant controllers with auto-failover and auto-failback for
reliability and uptime, offers up to three 3U expansion shelves with a
total of 64 high capacity SATA disk drives for up to 64 TB of total
capacity. It provides four SAS 4x wide host ports. Their SX-3498R model
offers eight 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports.

All models provide low cost “SAN-In-A-Box”
connectivity for two to eight servers respectively without the need for
expensive switches.

The FlashDisk SX-3400 Series provides high performance and low cost per
terabyte and offers up to 224 TB of tiered storage in a single 42U high
rack in just six square feet of floor space. It offers up to 1,514 MB
per second sustained throughput and 80,000 disk I/O operations per
second using SAS drives. The unit also delivers impressive performance
for SATA secondary storage device delivering 1,150 MB per second
sustained throughput and over 117,000 disk I/O operations per second.

According to the company’s chief executive
officer, Mr. Joel Leider, “This flexible,
expandable, reliable and high performance tiered storage solution is
easily configured to meet the ever changing demands of virtually every
data center – at a price/performance value
unmatched by other major storage companies. The ability to mix primary
and secondary storage with SAS and SATA drives and connect to
traditional SAN fabric or as a ‘SAN-In-A-Box’
to multiple SAS or Fibre Channel Hosts – and
with the benefit of built in hardware RAID 6 at an attractive
price/performance point is unprecedented.”

The FlashDisk SX-3404R models using 1 TB disks are available now and
start from under $19,000. Delivery is 2-3 weeks ARO.

Winchester Systems Inc.