Winchester Systems Tiered Fibre Channel Array Expands to 215 TB

BILLERICA, MA, Apr 29 (MARKET WIRE) --
Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today
announced that their FlashDisk FC-3400 Series RAID array now provides
tiered storage and supports both Fibre Channel and SATA disk drives and
has increased capacity from 100 TB to 215 TB.

As an enterprise class product, the FlashDisk FC-3400 is intended for the
most demanding applications including virtual servers, database, OLTP,
financial, manufacturing, video and real-time data acquisition. It
supports popular VMware, Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual
servers.

The FlashDisk FC-3400 is a high performance Fibre Channel RAID disk array
that supports a base shelf with single or dual redundant failover
controllers, 16 Fibre Channel disks and up to 13 expansion shelves. Each
expansion shelf holds 16 Fibre Channel or 16 SATA disks for a total of 224
disks. It uses Fibre Channel 15k rpm disks to 450 GB or 10k rpm disks to
400 GB -- and SATA 7.2k rpm disks to 1 TB each. Maximum capacity with 13
Fibre Channel expansions shelves is 100 TB and with 13 SATA expansion
shelves is 215 TB.

The dual redundant controller model with four 4 Gb Fibre Channel ports
provides 1,500 MB per second sustained throughput and over 120,000 disk
I/O operations per second with cache mirroring enabled for controller
failover. For backup, archive, snapshots, virtual tape libraries and
other secondary storage requirements, the FC-3400 supports a second tier
of SATA disk storage for such capacity driven applications.

"Within a single RAID array and one management console, IT managers can
now economically deploy virtual servers, large databases and make test,
backup and archive copies in mission critical environments without
compromising speed, reliability, manageability or serviceability -- and
at minimal cost," according to Mr. Joel Leider, the company's chief
executive officer. "All 14 of the 3U shelves fits exactly into one 42U
rack in just six square feet and delivers tremendous performance at
120,000 IOPS with unprecedented RAID 6 data integrity -- for a fraction
of the price of popular alternatives," he added.

RAID 6 offers dual parity for the utmost in data protection for valuable
enterprise data. Even if two disk drives fail or become unreadable, the
data will remain intact. Powered by hardware ASICs, the dual parity RAID 6
runs at full speed with little or no performance degradation -- key for
enterprise applications. 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.

Pricing starts at under $25,000 and delivery is 1-3 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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