Press Archive 2008

12/1/2008
Winchester Systems RAID Arrays Feature 1 TB SAS Drives
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that their FlashDisk Tiered SAS/SATA RAID disk arrays now support capacities to 80 TB of SAS disks – featuring new Seagate 1 TB SAS disk drives. The unit provides SAS reliability and performance combined with high capacity and low cost in a single array – perfect for today’s economy when IT managers are compelled to do more with less.
11/24/2008
Winchester Systems Expands Fibre Channel RAID to 100 TB
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that their FlashDisk HyperSAN FC-3400 Series RAID array has tripled the maximum capacity from 34 TB to 100 TB.
10/2/2008
Winchester Systems Announces Portable Rugged RAID
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced their FlashDisk RU5 series of portable, rugged RAID disk arrays that store up to 5 TB of data and intended for field use.
9/22/2008
Winchester Systems Moves To New Facility
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that it has moved its headquarters and manufacturing facility to Billerica, Massachusetts.
6/4/2008
Winchester Systems Completes 9th Generation Disk Array Line
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced two new disk arrays that completes a rollout of its 9th generation FlashDisk product line.
5/20/2008
Winchester Systems Announces Disk Array Featuring 2.5” Disks
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced a new disk array featuring Small Form Factor (SFF) 2.5” disk drives. Their FlashDisk SX-1300 Series is intended for high performance enterprise applications including database, manufacturing, financial and transaction processing that need higher performance than 3.5” Fibre Channel disks can deliver.
4/15/2008
New “High Performance Disk Array” Product Catalog Available from Winchester Systems
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced the availability of their new 16-page product catalog, “High Performance Disk Arrays.”
3/26/2008
NASA’s Earth Science Community Gets Fast, Reliable Access to Growing Petabye of Data
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) established in 1991 as a division of the NASA Langley Research Center has utilized 1.5 petabytes of data storage to capture and store stunning earth images. In 2007 alone, NASA distributed 275 terabytes of data to 34,000 of its customers worldwide.
3/11/2008
Tiered SAS/SATA Disk Array Expands to 80 TB
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced a new tiered SAS/SATA disk array that expands to 80 TB of primary and secondary storage in a single solution that are available for both SAS and Fibre Channel hosts. For added protection of today’s very large RAID disk arrays, the company includes high-speed, ASIC-driven RAID 6 dual-parity that protects data in the event of two drive failures as well as rebuild failures.
1/9/2008
SAS Disk Array Expands to 60 TB with 1 TB SATA Disks
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced a new SAS (Serial Attach SCSI) hosted SATA disk array that expands to 60 TB with 1 TB disk drives. As disk arrays increase in size, so do the chances of a rebuild failure. The company features RAID 6 dual parity to protect data during rebuilds.
1/8/2008
6-Minute Tutorial Available – “RAID 6 Essentials”
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today announced a new 6-minute tutorial entitled: “RAID 6 Essentials.”