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RAID Disk Array features 9,779 disk I/O per second

WOBURN, MA (March 2, 1998) Winchester Systems Inc. announced improved I/O speeds in their entire line of FlashDisk® RAID Disk Arrays that now feature up to 9,779 I/O operations per second the industry's fastest RAID array.

FlashDisk RAID now offers two classes of I/O performance. For Departmental and Enterprise applications, the top speed is 9,779 I/O operations per second on a sustained basis. Their Workgroup model now offers 7,700 I/O operations per second. This is a 27% increase in speed compared to prior FlashDisk RAID models. For comparison, a standard SCSI disk offers about 250 I/O operations per second so FlashDisk is as much as 40 times the speed.

“Customers report that their database, financial, manufacturing and web server applications run two, three or even five times faster with FlashDisk RAID than with other disks and RAID arrays,” according to Jerry Namery, Chief Technical Officer. “This outstanding performance was the result of achieving our design goal to offer the highest performance RAID disk array for open systems,” he added.

FlashDisk is available for all popular mid-range servers including HP 9000, IBM RS/6000, SUN Sparc, Intel Pentium and Pentium PRO as well as Digital VAX and Alpha. FlashDisk RAID systems are offered in desktop, pedestal and rackmount models that range in capacity from 9 Gbytes to over 1,000 Gbytes.

Complete FlashDisk RAID workgroup systems start at $7,310 for the desktop unit with a single Ultra-SCSI, 40-Mbyte per second host port and two 4.55-Gbyte Ultra-Wide SCSI disk drives totaling 9.1 Gbytes of storage that delivers 7,700 I/O per second,. The desktop unit with five 9.1-Gbytes disk drives is $14,104 for 45.5 Gbytes or only 31 cents per Mbyte. A complete Departmental or Enterprise model in pedestal or rackmount enclosure with two Ultra-SCSI host ports and twelve 9.1-Gbyte disk drives totaling 109.2 Gbyte that delivers 9,779 I/O per second is $36,256 or 33 cents per megabyte. Delivery is two to four weeks.

About Winchester Systems Inc.

Winchester Systems Inc. is a manufacturer of high performance peripherals for demanding industrial, government and commercial applications. For more information, contact Winchester Systems Inc., 400 West Cummings Park, Woburn, MA 01801, USA. Toll free: 800-325-3700, international: 781-933-8500, FAX: 781-933-6174. Fax-on-demand hotline: 800-4WINSYS (800-494-6797), e-mail address: info@winsys.com, web site: http://www.winsys.com.

Winchester Systems, FlashDisk and OpenRAID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Winchester Systems All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders and should be treated as such.

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