Winchester Systems Doubled Capacity of RR2P Rugged Removable Canister RAIDs

Winchester Systems Inc. announced that their RR2P Rugged Removable Canister disk array has doubled capacity to 80TB.

The RR2P is designed for mobile use aboard planes, ships and ground transports.It enables authorized personnel to 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.

Each rugged removable canister holds ten 2.5″ HDD or SSD drives with capacities up to 4TB each. In capturing high resolution imaging data, recording speed is of the essence and the RR2P delivers up to 2,200MB/s data throughput.

Recently, RR2P has been certified to meet these current military standards:

MIL-STD-461F – EMI/RFI
MIL-STD-704 – Aircraft power
RTCA DO-160 – Airborne equipment and shock
MIL-STD-810G – Environmental and vibration

The RR2P is a 2U RAID disk array chassis made of milled aluminum, weighting 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. Reliable canister connectors are military grade for field usage and are mounted to float to protect against shock and vibration.

“The field-proven RR2P is widely deployed in the US military and now has 80 TB capacity,” according to Inese Lanka, senior director, federal sales, Winchester Systems. “In this recent update, it was also certified to more current military standards,” she added.

Designed for harsh environments, each canister includes an easy-to-replace 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.

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 HDD 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 lock down to the vehicle.