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FlashSSD - Solid State Disk Speeds Applications 100% to 500%

Burlington, MA. May 8, 2001 - Winchester Systems, as part of an ambitious enterprise storage product rollout plan, has introduced its ultra-high performance FlashSSD (Solid State Disk) product to complement its family of high performance FlashDisk OpenRAID enterprise storage products.

"Winchester Systems now offers a variety of SAN-capable, high performance enterprise storage products that can be "mixed-and-matched" to each application to provide the highest possible performance and the highest return on investment for all mission critical applications," according to Mr. Joel Leider, the company's chief executive officer."

Sustained Reliable Performance.
FlashSSD is a non-volatile solid-state disk product that reliably delivers a sustained and constant 12,000 I/O operations per second and 40 MB per second data throughput. This data rate is consistent for all types of I/O including all reads and writes, all sequential and random transactions and for all large and small block transfers. It is ideal for the typical 1% to 5% of an application's "hot files" that account for 50% or more of all disk requests. By moving a relatively small percentage of these hot files to FlashSSD, disk intensive applications including OLTP, database, e-mail, messaging, e-commerce, streaming video, downloads, financial and manufacturing immediately run 100% to 500% faster with no tuning whatsoever. FlashSSD provides an I/O measurement tool for Oracle database users that pinpoints Oracle's hot files.

Complements FlashDisk OpenRAID
The company's FlashDisk OpenRAID provides exceptional performance rivaling SSD capabilities. However, since the actual data must eventually be written to disk on FlashDisk OpenRAID, and writes take longer than reads, I/O performance to RAID hardware is data sensitive and performance naturally varies. FlashSSD is uniquely designed to provide predictable and steady high performance on a consistent basis for both reads and writes and thus it is the device that hot files such as index files, redo logs, temp spaces, key tables, buffer queues, directories and other persistently used hot files should be located. When used in tandem with FlashDisk OpenRAID high speed and bulk storage models, the family of FlashDisk products provides three price/performance storage alternatives that can be used in proper proportions to optimize performance while staying within affordable budgets.

High Capacity, Non-Volatile SSD Storage
The FlashSSD is available in models that range from 500 MB to 10 GB of non-volatile storage in a single 3U (5.25") high rackmount unit. FlashSSD is exceptionally reliable and has an MTBF rating over 2 million hours. To protect application data from loss during a power failure, FlashSSD is equipped with a battery backup and internal hard disk drive that backs up and restores 5 GB of data in just 4 minutes. Upon power failure, FlashSSD performs an emergency cache backup to hard disk powered by the internal battery. When power is restored, all data is reloaded into cache, all transparently to the application.

"Open" Architecture
FlashSSD is a true hardware, plug-and-play storage solution, which emulates standard disks and does not require software drivers or agents of any kind. FlashSSD attaches via industry standard SCSI and Fibre Channel interfaces to host servers including SUN, HP, IBM and NT.

Price and Delivery
A typical FlashSSD model with 500 MB of storage and SCSI interconnect is priced at $20,200. Delivery is 2 weeks ARO.

Complements FlashDisk OpenRAID
The company's FlashDisk OpenRAID provides exceptional performance rivaling SSD capabilities. However, since the actual data must eventually be written to disk on FlashDisk OpenRAID, and writes take longer than reads, I/O performance to RAID hardware is data sensitive and performance naturally varies. FlashSSD is uniquely designed to provide predictable and steady high performance on a consistent basis for both reads and writes and thus it is the device that hot files such as index files, redo logs, temp spaces, key tables, buffer queues, directories and other persistently used hot files should be located. When used in tandem with FlashDisk OpenRAID high speed and bulk storage models, the family of FlashDisk products provides three price/performance storage alternatives that can be used in proper proportions to optimize performance while staying within affordable budgets.

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, USA. Toll free: 800-325-3700, international: 781-265-0200, fax: 781-265-0201. E-mail address: info@winsys.com, web site: www.winsys.com.

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