BILLERICA, MA -- 07/01/09 --
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data
storage solutions provider, continued its rollout of its 10th generation of
FlashDisk RAID disk arrays. Their FlashDisk SX-2300
now offers the latest 8 Gb Fibre Channel ports and a new generation of
faster ASICs which combined deliver 1,400 MB per second data throughput and
105,000 IOPS. It provides for expansion to 84 SAS or SATA disk drives and
total storage of 84 TB.
The FlashDisk SX-2300 is a high performance tiered RAID disk array that
supports a base shelf with a single controller or dual redundant failover
controllers with mirrored cache, 12 SAS or SATA disks and up to six
expansion shelves. Each expansion shelf holds 12 SAS or SATA disks for a
total of 84 disks. It uses SAS 15k rpm disks to 450 GB, 10k rpm disks to
400 GB or 7.2k disks to 1 TB. It also supports SATA 7.2k rpm disks to 1 TB
each. Maximum capacity is 84 TB. Thus, up to 3 tiers of storage for
applications with differing speed requirements can be deployed in a single
SX-2300 disk array system.
The FlashDisk SX-2300 is tiered storage and is intended for both the most
demanding performance driven primary storage applications including virtual
servers, database, OLTP, financial, manufacturing as well as capacity
driven secondary storage applications including backup, archiving,
snapshots, virtual tape libraries, data acquisition, medical imaging and
surveillance. It also supports popular VMware, Citrix XenServer and
Microsoft Hyper-V virtual servers.
"The FlashDisk SX-2300 Series is similar to the FlashDisk SX-3400
Series but uses 12-bay, 2U high shelves versus 16-bay, 3U high shelves
used in the SX-3400," according to Mr. Joel Leider, the company's chief
executive officer. "This allows smaller increment expansions yet higher
total capacity of 252 TB in a single 42U high cabinet," he added.
RAID 6 offers dual parity for the utmost in data protection. Even if two
disk drives fail or become unreadable, the data will remain intact.
Powered by the newest generation of hardware ASICs, the dual parity RAID 6
runs at full speed for both SAS and SATA drives with little or no
performance degradation. According to the company's white paper, "Enterprise RAID 6," RAID 6 dual parity offers 500 to 30,000 times
longer MTDL (Mean Time to Data Loss) than RAID 5. An informative 6-minute
presentation "RAID 6 Essentials" is also available.
Pricing starts at under $13,000 and delivery is 1-3 weeks ARO.
About Winchester Systems Inc.
Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached
storage, tiered-storage, storage area network and enterprise data storage
solutions for commercial, industrial, healthcare, education, government and
military applications. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, SAS,
SCSI, SATA and Fibre Channel RAID disk arrays; tape backup devices and
other high performance commercial and military grade data storage for
mid-range servers including Windows, Windows Clusters, Linux, Linux
Clusters, and UNIX. For more information visit Winchester Systems on the
web at www.winsys.com.
Contact:
Joel Leider
Chief Executive Officer
Winchester Systems Inc.
800-325-3700
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