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Winchester Systems Announces 180 TB "SAN-In-A-Cabinet"
Massively parallel architecture delivers up to 1.6 million IOPS
Supports up to 44 servers

Burlington, MA. July 11, 2006 - Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today introduced their FlashDisk OpenSAN for the enterprise that provides an entire SAN in a single cabinet with connectivity for up to 44 host servers that fits in just six square feet.

The company has released three models of their FlashDisk OpenSAN. The MP-1034 high performance model delivers 1,606,000 IOPS for random access applications and 13,190 MBps throughput for sequential applications and provides 120 TB of total storage for 30 host servers. The MP-1020 high capacity model provides 180 TB to 44 host servers and delivers 880,000 IOPS and 7,700 MBps. Finally, the MP-1026 provides a balance of capacity and performance providing 156 TB to 38 host servers while delivering 1,144,000 IOPS and 10,000 MBps. All models can be purchased complete or partially complete, ready to expand non-disruptively on demand.

"Winchester Systems is delivering these high capacity and high performance 'SANs in a cabinet' complete with redundant Fibre Channel switches, FlashView centralized management software that runs from any web browser plus FlashConsole storage monitoring appliance and FlashAlert call home service. The FlashDisk OpenSAN unit is delivered as a single part number ready to run," according to Mr. Joel Leider, the company's chief executive officer.

According to their chief technology officer, Mr. Jerry Namery, "Most importantly, the massively parallel, point to point design in the SAN-In-A-Cabinet delivers an order of magnitude higher performance at far lower cost than the 'frame' RAID offerings from other major vendors." We completely eliminated Fibre Channel arbitrated loop bottlenecks and diagnostic issues which plague traditional architectures," he explained.

FlashDisk OpenSAN supports 150, 300, 400 and 500 GB enterprise class disk drives and 750 GB secondary storage disk drives for the highest capacity. All systems support RAID 1, 3, 5, 6, 10, 15 and 16. RAID 6 dual-parity protects each shelf against two drive failures and protects against data loss commonly caused by rebuild failures. RAID 6 provides more than 200 times longer MTDL (Mean Time to Data Loss) than RAID 5 and is especially recommended with large arrays and disk drives intended for secondary storage. FlashDisk OpenSAN provides industry leading RAID 6 performance with dual hardware ASICs to accelerate parity calculations. The company claims that its hardware powered RAID 6 delivers performance at faster speeds than competitive RAID 5 arrays.

Fault tolerant features of FlashDisk OpenSAN include fully redundant data paths to each disk, multi-pathing and HBA failover, redundant hot-swap drives, controllers, power supplies, fans, BBUs and AC power.

Pricing and Availability: Products are available within 3 weeks, with pricing starting at under $75,000.

About Winchester Systems, Inc.
Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, tiered-storage and storage area network enterprise data storage solutions. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, 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.

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