INTRODUCTION
FlashDisk RAID disk arrays have been speeding up disk intensive applications for the past 15 years. FlashDisk works equally well in random access environments including database and transaction-oriented applications as well as sequential access environments including backup, copying, video streaming, web serving.

Now in its 7th generation, FlashDisk RAID disk arrays deliver up to 160,000 I/O operations per second - perfect for all disk intensive applications. Often, after laboriously tuning an Oracle database or similar application for days, week or months, just installing the application on FlashDisk RAID disk array will cause the applications to immediately run 2 to 10 times faster.

Winchester Systems has specialized in providing the highest performance disk arrays since 1988. Performance has improved exponentially at an incredible 70% per year annual compounded growth rate for 15 straight years - a 3,200 times increase in performance. Today's performance of 160,000 I/O operations per second is over about 6 times faster than the industry leading 26,000 I/O operations per second FlashDisk delivered as recently as 2000.

HOW IT WORKS
FlashDisk high performance RAID disk arrays are architected start to finish for high performance. All FlashDisk RAID disk arrays are full 64-bit architecture end-to-end. No compromises.Up to 1 GB high-speed data cache per controller speeds data access for both reads and writes. For added speed, the disk arrays are designed with up to 12 channels that can be used for disk or host access. The result is massively parallel data access via full 64-bit data paths - yielding unsurpassed performance. All internal chips including SCSI and Fibre Channel ASICS are designed for speed. Unlike very popular competitors, FlashDisk has not tossed out the RAID 5 parity chips to save a few dollars at the customer's expense. Finally, multiple FlashDisk RAID arrays are very scalable to extremely high I/O demands since they are inexpensive enough to use as many as needed for the specific demands of the environment.