Winchester Systems Speeding RR2P Rugged Removable Canister RAID

Winchester Systems Inc. announced a speed improvement to its RR2P Rugged Removable Canister disk arrays designed for mobile use aboard planes, ships and ground transports.

These ‘purpose built’ products are used primarily by the US military and emergency responders.

The product enables authorized personnel to quickly remove reconnaissance and surveillance images and video from the RAID and immediately plug it into a ground station for analysis – and insert new canisters into the mobile asset for rapid redeployment.

In capturing high resolution imaging data, recording speed is of the essence. Accordingly, the company recently made improvements to the product to increase the write rate by 29% to 2,000 MB/s and the read rate by 10% to 2,200MB/s.

The RR2P is lightweight 2U RAID chassis made of milled aluminum, weighting 48 pounds with HDDs and 44 pounds with SSDs in two removable canisters. Each canister holds ten 2.5" HDDs or SSDs with capacity to 1TB each and total system capacity to 20TB. All ten disks in a canister are carried as a single unit by a handle for transport and locks into place with a positive locking lever. Reliable canister connectors are military grade for field usage and are mounted to float to protect against shock and vibration. Designed for harsh environments, each canister includes an easy-to-replace filter that protects against ambient dust and humidity.

The RR2P is a configurable 8Gb FC hosted product, with two ports per canister, that offer options including AC or DC power supplies variety of disk and SSD storage alternatives. It is 17" wide to mount with a variety of standard rackmount rails and offers optional base plate mounting screws for secure lockdown to the vehicle.

Prices for RR2P disk arrays start at under $40,000. Products are available, are built to order and delivery is 8 weeks.

White paper 9 Reasons the RR2P Pluggable Canister RAID is Right for Military Surveillance (registration needed)