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Winchester Systems provides
network-attached storage,
direct-attached storage, tiered-storage and storage area network enterprise data
storage solutions. These solutions include high performance
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, Linux, and UNIX. For more information visit
Winchester Systems on the web at www.winsys.com.
Editor's comments:- May 2012 - Winchester Systems is in the
rugged RAID systems
market. Its arrays can include HDDs or SSDs. |
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| "In May 2001
- Winchester Systems introduced a product called - FlashSSD - as an
option in its OpenRAID enterprise storage SAN product line. This non-volatile
solid-state disk was for the typical 1% to 5% of an application's "hot
files" that account for 50% or more of all disk requests. FlashSSD
delivered a sustained and constant 12,000 IOPS and 40MB/s data throughput. The
company said it could speed up disk based applications by 2x to 5x...." |
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| Surviving SSD
sudden power loss |
Why should you care
what happens in an SSD when the power goes down?
This important design
feature - which barely rates a mention in most SSD datasheets and press releases
- has a strong impact on
SSD data integrity
and operational
reliability.
This article will help you understand why some
SSDs which (work perfectly well in one type of application) might fail in
others... even when the changes in the operational environment appear to be
negligible. |
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