Winchester Systems Doubles FlashNAS Unified Storage Performance and Capacity

Winchester Systems Inc. announced the latest addition to its high-speed FlashNAS Unified Storage family.

FlashNAS Unified Storage FN-1600 extends the high end of the company’s FlashNAS product line, doubling the performance and capacity of its predecessor, the FN-1500.

FlashNAS Unified Storage is an affordable, feature-rich storage server that provides virtual storage pools of CIFS, NFS and iSCSI volumes for Windows, Linux, Unix and Mac OS clients. Built on a 1U carrier-class, NEBS-3 compliant server platform designed to MIL-STD-810G specifications, FlashNAS can be used as a ‘gateway’ to Winchester Systems high-performance FlashDisk storage arrays, or as a stand-alone ‘appliance’ using built-in RAID hardware.  

FN-1600 supports two Intel Xeon 5600 processors (up to 12 cores), and up to 192GB cache memory – twelve times that of its predecessor. It also sports two FC ports, and up to eight 1bE ports (two of which can be upgraded to 10GbE). These technology enhancements boost FlashNAS scalability to over a petabyte of capacity and thousands of active users.

Because it’s based on Windows Storage Server, FlashNAS can participate in one or more Active Directory domains. The company integrates high-performance NFS-server software into FlashNAS, providing file access for Linux, Unix and Mac OS users – and file sharing with Windows users – without added client hardware or software.

"Now enterprises of all sizes can deploy large-scale, high-performance NAS file services to their users, regardless what OS they use," said Ted Gumer, Winchester Systems VP, sales and business development. "FlashNAS Unified Storage delivers NAS and iSCSI SAN storage at a fraction of the price of many popular offerings."

The FN-1600 is available, with delivery in 1-3 weeks. Pricing starts at under $6,000.