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Winchester Systems Doubles Capacity of RR2P Rugged Removable Canister RAIDs

Up to 40TB with HDDs or SSDs in 2U

Winchester Systems Inc. announced that their RR2P rugged removable canister disk arrays offer twice the capacity – up to 40TB.

RR2P Front View with LCD

It is designed for mobile use aboard planes, ships and ground transports. These ‘purpose built’ products are used primarily by the US military and emergency responders. It enables authorized personnel to remove reconnaissance and surveillance images and video from the RAID and plug it into a ground station for analysis – and insert new canisters into the mobile asset for rapid redeployment.

Each rugged removable canister holds ten 2.5″ HDD or SSD drives with capacities up to 2TB each. In capturing high resolution imaging data, recording speed is of the essence and the RR2P delivers up to 2,200MB/s data throughput.

The product is a 2U RAID disk array chassis made of milled aluminum, weighting only 48 pounds with HDDs and 44 pounds with SSDs in two removable canisters. All ten disks in a canister are carried as a single unit by a handle for safe transport and locks into place with a positive locking lever. Canister connectors are for field usage and are mounted to float to protect against shock and vibration.

Designed for harsh environments, each canister includes a filter that protects against ambient dust and humidity. For added confidence in these environments, the RR2P canisters are each equipped with a real-time LCD status display that alerts the operator to any malfunction including temperature, controller, disk drives and other factors so that remedial action can be taken to keep the mission on track.

It’s a configurable FC 8GB 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 8-12 weeks.

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