Options for Winchester Systems COTS Rugged 2U FlashDisk All Flash Array

Winchester Systems Inc. offers a variety of 2.5″ SSDs that offer capacity, endurance (measured in drive writes per day or DWD) and price options for its rugged FlashDisk AFA All Flash Array.

These all flash systems are for mobile deployable applications – especially for high speed, real-time data acquisition from radar, camera, video and other sensor driven sources.

These options lower the entry price point for low capacity solutions while also lowering the cost per gogabyte for high capacity solutions as follows:

SAS	200 GB to 1.6 TB	3 DWD or 10 DWD	Highest data rates
SAS	2 TB	1 DWD	High capacity
SAS	4 TB	0.5 DWD	Highest capacity
SATA	200 GB to 1.6 TB	3 DWD or 1.8 DWD	Best value combination

Value combination
The rugged FlashDisk AFA delivers 487,000 IO/s continuous performance for random access applications and 12.6GB/s data throughput for C4ISR applications including video, mapping, radar and data acquisition. It offers another key advantage for military applications – data is stored in native format and does not compromise performance with compression or de-duplication and yet is competitively priced on a cost per gigabyte basis.

The rugged 2U base unit holds up to 24×2.5″ SSDs and SEDs with capacities ranging from 200GB to 4TB each to provide 4.8 to 96TB. It offers single or dual controllers and up to 20 ports including FC 8Gb, FC 16Gb, 1GbE and 10GbE.

“This new variety of SSD offerings now let’s our military and prime contractor customers tailor their data recorder solutions to create the exact combination of capacity, performance, endurance and price for their C4ISR applications,” explained Inese Lanka, senior director, federal sales.

Prices for rugged FlashDisk AFA start at under $30,000. Products are available and delivery is 2-3 weeks.