Winchester Expands Arrays with 1TB SAS Disks

By Greg McNevin

December 5, 2008: Data storage solution provider Winchester Systems has announced that its SAS/SATA RAID disk arrays now support 1TB SAS drives, enabling them to provide capacities of up to 80TBs.

The company’s FlashDisk Tiered SAS/SATA RAID disk arrays have been expanded with Seagate’s new 1 TB SAS disk drives, and according to Winchester can match the performance of arrays with 10,000RPM disks with 7,200 rpm SAS disks at lower costs due to optimisation technology.

Winchester says that its FlashDisk, with 1TB SAS drives, can deliver 30 percent higher performance than with SATA disks making it suitable for a range of applications, including database queries, file processing, video on demand, and all but the most heavily loaded transaction oriented systems.

“We are very excited about this stunning breakthrough in price, performance and reliability - especially in today's environment where IT budgets are constrained - but storage demands continue to expand,” said Winchester CEO Joel Leider. “Our powerful ASIC-powered FlashDisk systems deliver SAS reliability and performance combined with the overwhelming economy of 1 TB disk drives.”

“Now, we can deliver an economical array for the vast majority of applications at literally a fraction of the cost of traditional enterprise arrays,” said Leider.

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