Winchester Systems Announces 180 TB ''SAN-In-A-Cabinet''.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Massively parallel architecture delivers up to 1.6 million IOPS IOPS Input/Output Per Second IOPS Input/Output Operations Per Second (server performance measurement) IOPS International Organization of Pension Supervisors IOPS Information Operations Planning System IOPS Internet Official Protocol Standards Supports up to 44 servers Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today introduced their FlashDisk(R) 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 Major manufacturers of Fibre Channel switches are: Brocade, Cisco, McData and Qlogic.
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 A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. 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 MTDL Mean Time until Data Loss MTDL Mean Time to Data Loss (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 (Host Bus Adapter) See host adapter. 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 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. , SAS (1) (SAS Institute Inc., Cary, NC, www.sas.com) A software company that specializes in data warehousing and decision support software based on the SAS System. Founded in 1976, SAS is one of the world's largest privately held software companies. See SAS System. , SATA (Serial ATA) A serial version of the ATA (IDE) interface, which has been the de facto standard hard disk interface for desktop PCs for more than two decades. The original Parallel ATA (PATA) interface was launched in 1986. 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 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). . For more information visit Winchester Systems on the web at www.winsys.com. FlashDisk is a registered trademark and FlashView and FlashConsole are trademarks of Winchester Systems, Inc. |
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