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Winchester Systems Announces FlashDisk® OpenSAN
Start Small - "Pay-as-you-grow" Scalability

Burlington, MA. July 23, 2003. Winchester Systems Inc., an innovative storage solutions company, has introduced a new robust, high performance storage solution called FlashDisk OpenSAN. This new generation of two Gigabit "end-to-end" Fibre Channel product is designed for midrange to enterprise storage environments requiring extremely high performance, scalability and leading-edge connectivity.

"FlashDisk OpenSAN uses our advanced seventh generation architecture with a modular design that provides virtual 'SAN-In-A-Box' capability and 'pay-as-you-grow' scalability" stated Jerry Namery, President. "As additional servers or higher storage capacity becomes necessary with the growth of a customer's business, OpenSAN can be upgraded and configured easily in the field without downtime, simply by adding a few key modular components. It's no longer necessary to buy more storage or host connectivity than you need. Simply start small and "pay-as-you-grow".

FlashDisk OpenSAN is available in two models: the FX-400, 8-port configuration and the FX-600, 12-port-both designed for exceptional high performance and continuous data availability. FlashDisk OpenSAN supports switched fabric, point-to-point and loop topologies and is compatible with any server or operating system with no host software. With dual redundant and hot-swappable components, including controllers, disk drives, I/O modules, power supplies, fans, AC power and LAN ports, OpenSAN is designed with no single point of failure.

Capacity
Typically configured from one to ten terabytes, the FX-400 supports up to 112 disk drives providing 16 terabytes of storage, while the FX-600 scales to 32 terabytes with 224 disk drives. The FX-400 is easily field upgradable to the FX-600.

Performance
OpenSAN delivers an impressive 160,000 I/Os per second and 1,400 MB/second thruput, making it ideal for database, OLTP, manufacturing, multimedia, financial, imaging, prepress, e-mail, web server and other disk intensive tasks.

Storage Management
Included with every OpenSAN solution is the FlashConsole centralized management appliance, providing complete centralized management using any browser-based workstation on the LAN. Also included for one year is FlashAlert, a 24-hour "call-home" remote monitoring and alert service.

Price and Delivery
Pricing for OpenSAN FX-400 starts at $21,900 and pricing for the FX-600 starts at $24,500.
Delivery is 2-3 weeks.

About Winchester Systems
Winchester Systems provides SAN and NAS capable enterprise storage solutions including high performance SCSI and fibre channel RAID disk arrays, 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, 800-325-3700 or 781-265-0200, fax: 781-265-0201, e-mail: info@winsys.com, web site: www.winsys.com.

Winchester Systems, FlashDisk, FlashConsole and OpenRAID are trademarks or registered trademarks of Winchester Systems Inc. All other brands or products are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders.

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