Winchester Systems Announces High Performance SAS Array with RAID 6 Data Protection.BURLINGTON, Mass. -- Supports up to Four hosts with 4 Gb Fibre Channel Connectivity Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today introduced a new extremely high performance 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. (Serial Attached SCSI See SAS. ) based RAID array designed for the most demanding high performance applications requiring high throughput, high sequential and random I/Os and vastly superior data protection. "The SF-2300 features market leading performance. It supports up to 780 MBs per second sustained for reads and 536 MBs per second writes in a RAID 5 configuration. Now with twelve 15K rpm SAS disks and up to 3.6 TBs available in a single 2U enclosure, our customers can use the SF-2300 for any application requiring high transaction rates such as database, OLTP (OnLine Transaction Processing) See transaction processing and OLCP. OLTP - On-Line Transaction Processing , manufacturing, financial or high performance computing (HPC). It also provides superior support for high throughput sequential applications such as video imaging, multimedia, disk-to-disk backup and industrial-strength web services," stated Joel Leider, Chief Executive Officer. FlashDisk SF-2300 supports single or redundant 64-bit RAID controllers with up to four 4 Gb Fibre Channel host ports without using a switch, and has high availability features including the new FlashDisk Enterprise RAID 6 protection. The SF-2300 implements RAID 6 in hardware using dual custom ASICs enabling it to maintain a near level RAID 5 performance with RAID 6 protection against multiple drive failures. It supports all other RAID modes, and additional high availability features include fully redundant data paths and redundant hot swappable drives, cooling, power supplies, and BBUs. Every FlashDisk data storage solution includes the FlashConsole appliance, providing complete centralized management using any browser-based workstation on the LAN (Local Area Network) A communications network that serves users within a confined geographical area. The "clients" are the user's workstations typically running Windows, although Mac and Linux clients are also used. . FlashAlert, a 24-hour "call-home" remote monitoring and alert service is also included for one year. Pricing and Availability: Product is available within 3 weeks, with list pricing starting at under $15,000 MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) . 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, 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 |
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