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Home >> News & Events|Press Releases >> Press Releases FlashDisk® OpenRAID™ Announcing 13,000 IOPS BURLINGTON, MA. April 10, 2001 - Winchester Systems, as part of an ambitious enterprise storage product rollout plan, has introduced its ultra-high performance FlashDisk OpenRAID that delivers industry leading read/write performance using a new 64-bit end-to end design.fibre ports. "Winchester Systems has moved the bar up for the entire enterprise storage industry again, exclaims Mr. Jerry Namery, the company's chief technology officer. "We already led the industry in performance with our current 32-bit model and now we've nearly doubled both the random and sequential data rates with our new 64-bit design." Sustained
Performance
End-to-End
64-bit RAID Array
The FlashDisk OpenRAID disk array is designed for speed and is 64-bit end-to-end. It features a 64-bit PowerPC processor, 64-bit data path to both the hosts and the disk drives and up to 8 disk/host channels each with burst transfer rate of 533 MB/sec. The maximum total cache aboard the RAID engine has been doubled to 512 MB. This large cache permits FlashDisk OpenRAID to perform at data rates above the published sustained data rates for fairly large bursts of data. Capacity
The FlashDisk OpenRAID unit running the new 64-bit design holds up to 8 half-height disk drives of up to 73.4 GB each for a total current system capacity of 582.2 GB. For even higher speed using more spindles in parallel, FlashDisk OpenRAID uses 12 disk drives of 18.1 GB each for 217.2 GB. FlashDisk OpenRAID is designed to accept higher capacity disk drives as they are released. FlashDisk is now "drive-ready" for 181 GB half-height drives and 36 GB low-profile drives which increase capacity of the half-height model to 1.45 TB and the low-profile model to 434.4 GB. "Open" Architecture FlashDisk OpenRAID is a true hardware, plug-and-play storage solution, which emulates standard SCSI disks --eliminating proprietary host software, RAID managers and the need for software drivers or agents of any kind. It supports hardware RAID 1, 3, 5, 1+0 and RAID 15 for data protection. FlashDisk OpenRAID attaches via industry standard fibre channel and SCSI interfaces to host servers including SUN, HP, IBM and Intel. Price
and Delivery FlashDisk OpenRAID models are available in rackmount and pedestal configurations. A FlashDisk OpenRAID unit with 8 disk drives of 73.4 GB each stores 587.2 GB and is priced at $39,994 including cables and UPS. The 12 drive models with 18.1 GB disk drives store 217.2 GB and are priced at $29,857 including cables and UPS. Delivery is 3 weeks. About Winchester Systems Winchester Systems provides SAN and NAS capable enterprise storage solutions including high performance SCSI and fibre channel RAID disk arrays, solid-state disks, tape backup devices and other high performance commercial and military grade storage for mid-range servers including UNIX and NT. Winchester Systems provides products that support today's most demanding industrial, government and commercial applications. For more information, contact Winchester Systems Inc., 149 Middlesex Turnpike, Burlington, MA 01803. Phone: 800-325-3700, 781-265-0200, fax: 781-265-0201. E-mail address: info@winsys.com, web site: 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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