FlashDisk OpenRAID Increases Speed with Ultra160 SCSI.Business/Technology Editors BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 21, 2001 Winchester Systems, as part of an ambitious enterprise storage product rollout plan, has upgraded its high-performance FlashDisk OpenRAID product to utilize Ultra160 SCSI interfaces to all host and drive interface channels to provide "end-to-end" Ultra160 performance. FlashDisk OpenRAID models are now available with up to four Ultra160 SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. host ports that each deliver up to 160 MB per second data throughput. The quad host model permits up to four host servers to be "direct attached" simultaneously. For enterprise environments that plan to convert to SAN or NAS (1) See network access server. (2) (Network Attached Storage) A specialized file server that connects to the network. A NAS device contains a slimmed-down operating system and a file system and processes only I/O requests by supporting the popular in the near future, other FlashDisk models provide two SCSI ports and two fibre channel ports. This unique configuration enables the FlashDisk OpenRAID disk array to be directly attached via Ultra160 SCSI immediately and then later migrated to "network attach" via fibre channel by simply inserting the fibre channel cable to the fibre channel port. No changes are required within the RAID system. "This high speed, Ultra160 SCSI interface is part of our program of continuous improvement to our FlashDisk family of OpenRAID products, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Mr. Jerry Namery, chief technology officer at Winchester Systems. "With four Ultra160 host ports, FlashDisk supports today's most disk intensive applications including database, OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , e-commerce, streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video, imaging, publishing, data acquisition, high speed backup, ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) An integrated information system that serves all departments within an enterprise. Evolving out of the manufacturing industry, ERP implies the use of packaged software rather than proprietary software written by or for one customer. and more," he added. High Capacity FlashDisk OpenRAID is available with 18, 36, 73 and 181 GB disk drives. One model uses 12 low-profile 73.4 GB, 10,000-rpm disk drives and stores 880.8 GB. The highest capacity unit uses eight half-height 181.2 GB, 7,200-rpm disk drives and stores 1.45 TB. The FlashDisk 82" high Data Center Cabinet holds nine rackmount units plus a UPS to store 13 TB in just six square feet of floor space. High Performance FlashDisk Ultra160 models deliver up to 13,000 I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output operations per second for random access applications and up to 121 Mbytes per second sustained data throughput with a single RAID controller A disk controller card that supports one or more RAID configurations. Originally only for SCSI drives, RAID controllers have become very popular for PATA and SATA drives. See RAID. . With an available dual active-active RAID controller model, the throughput measure is increased to 177 MB per second. The high random I/O performance makes FlashDisk OpenRAID suitable for OLTP, database, financial, manufacturing and other random access applications. The high I/O throughput performance makes FlashDisk OpenRAID also suitable for sequential tasks such as file copying File copying is creation of a new file which has the same content as an existing file. All operating systems include file copying in the user interface, like "cp" in Unix and "copy" in MS-DOS; operating systems with GUIs usually provide copy-and-paste or drag-and-drop , report generation, data collection, video and audio streaming See streaming audio. and backup applications. "Open" Architecture FlashDisk OpenRAID is a true hardware, plug-and-play storage solution, which emulates standard disks --eliminating proprietary host software, RAID managers and the need for software drivers or agents of any kind. It supports hardware RAID 1, 3, 5, 1+0 and RAID 15 for data protection. FlashDisk OpenRAID attaches via industry standard SCSI and fibre channel interfaces to host servers including SUN, HP, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) and NT. Price and Delivery FlashDisk OpenRAID models are available in rackmount and pedestal configurations. A FlashDisk OpenRAID Ultra160 unit with eight 7,200-rpm disk drives of 181.4 GB each that stores 1.45 TB is priced at $50,897 for a dual-port model and $53,640 for a quad-port model - both under four cents per MB. For higher speed requirements, using more and faster spindles, the FlashDisk OpenRAID Ultra160 uses twelve 10,000-rpm disk drives of 73.4 GB each to store 880.8 GB and is priced at $41,103 for a dual port model and $43,846 for a quad-port model. Delivery is two to three weeks. 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 Using magnetic tape for storing duplicate copies of hard disk files. Users can add an internal or external tape drive to their desktop computers for backup purposes, and files are typically copied to the tapes using a backup utility that updates on a periodic schedule. devices and other high performance commercial and military grade storage for mid-range servers including UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). 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. Caption for available photos With up to four Ultra160 SCSI host ports, FlashDisk OpenRAID provides the ultimate in performance delivering 13,000 sustained I/O operations per second and 121 MB per second sustained data throughput with single RAID controller. Perfect for all disk intensive applications, FlashDisk models store up to 1.45 TB per unit for all SUN, HP, IBM and NT servers. 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