Winchester Systems Announces Disk Array Featuring 2.5" Disks

BURLINGTON, MA, May 20 (MARKET WIRE) --
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.

The SX-1300 support four tiers of storage on one set of RAID controllers:
Tier 1+ near
solid state disk performance for database hot files; Tier 1 for high speed
primary storage; Tier 2 for enterprise applications; Tier 3 for high
capacity backup and archives.

The FlashDisk SX-1300 base unit offers single or dual redundant
controllersand twelve high performance, low power, 2.5" disk drives in an
extremely compact
and low power 1U high enclosure. The SX-1300 is a SAS/SATA storage solution
that
is expandable and can support up to four expansion shelves that are 1U, 2U or 3U
high. The 1U expansion shelf holds 12 SAS 2.5" disk drives that are available
in 10K rpm with 73 GB and 146 GB capacities and in 15K rpm disk drives in 36
GB and 73 GB capacities. The 2U and 3U expansion shelves hold 12 and 16 SAS
drives or SATA 3.5" disk drives, respectively.

Demanding Tier 1+ applications such as database "hot files" that are
typically candidates for solid-state disk run on the 15K rpm 2.5" disks while
standard high performance Tier 1 applications including large database and OLTP
applications run on the 15k rpm 3.5" disks. Most other typical enterprise Tier
2 applications including e-mail and desktop applications run on the less
expensive 10K rpm disks while backup, archiving and other Tier 3 high capacity
applications run on low cost SATA 7,200 rpm disks.

FlashDisk SX-1300 Series expands to 67.5 TB of primary and secondary storage
in a
single solution that are available for both SAS and Fibre Channel hosts.
FlashDisk SX-1304R, with dual redundant controllers with auto-failover and
auto-failback for reliability and uptime, provides four SAS 4x wide host
ports. The SX-1394R model offers four 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports. Single
controller systems are also available and the SX-1302S offer two SAS 4x wide
ports and the SX-1392S offers two 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports.

The FlashDisk SX-1300 Series provides high performance and up to 42 of the
1U
shelves fit into a 42U high rack in just six square feet of floor space. Each
shelf offers up to 1,539 MB per second sustained throughput and 143,000 disk
I/O operations per second. A full cabinet configured in a massively
parallel arrangement with 42 shelves, each with redundant controllers delivers a
staggering 64 GB per second sustained throughput and over 6 million disk I/O
operations per second. This is perfect for high performance computing (HPC)
and the largest random access applications including search engines, social
networking
sites, video distribution, photo sites, remote backup services and highly
parallel web
services.

Additionally, the FlashDisk SX-1300 disk arrays with 2.5" disks is
designedto consume up to 65% less power than typical 3.5" enterprise class RAID
arrays. IT managers can choose to save substantially on power and cooling
creating a more "green" data center and to overcome electricity supply
constraints that are prevalent certain major metropolitan areas.

According to the company's chief executive officer, Mr. Joel Leider, "The
SX-1300 family of products is simply breathtaking in its versatility as it
offers industry leading performance, reliability, capacity and green
initiatives all in one highly configurable product at competitive prices."

The company's chief technology officer, Mr. Jerry Namery, explained, "The
2.5"
disk drive will be as revolutionary to the IT environment as was the 3.5"
drive and the 5.25" drive of prior generations. It improves performance and
storage density, lowers power and cooling requirements while offering flexible
tiered
storage all in one simple storage architecture that is available now."

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. According to the
company's white paper, "Enterprise RAID 6," RAID 6 dual parity offers 500
to 30,000 times longer MTDL (Mean Time To Data Loss) than RAID 5. An
informative 6-minute presentation "RAID 6 Essentials" is also available.

Available now, the FlashDisk SX-1302S and SX-1394S models using 73 GB
disksstart under $10,000. Delivery is 2-3 weeks ARO.

About Winchester Systems Inc.

Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached
storage,
tiered-storage, storage area network and enterprise data storage solutions for
commercial, industrial, healthcare, education, government and military
applications. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, SAS, SCSI, SATA
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. For
more information visit Winchester Systems on the web at www.winsys.com.

Contact:
Joel Leider
Chief Executive Officer
Winchester Systems Inc.
800-325-3700
Email Contact

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