Winchester Announces Rugged SSD Canister Disk Array

Winchester Systems Inc.has announced a new product line of rugged removable canister disk arrays, called the FlashDisk RR2P Series. The new product line is purpose built for the US military and has been designed for mobile use aboard planes, ships and ground transports.

The RR2P is lightweight 2U RAID disk array chassis made of milled aluminum, weighting only 47 pounds fully loaded, containing two removable canisters. Each canister holds ten compact 2.5" Small Form Factor (SFF) disks or SSDs with capacity to 1 TB each and total system capacity to 20 TB, said Winchester Systems.

 

 

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The RR2P is a configurable Fibre Channel 8 Gb hosted product, with two ports per canister, that offer options including AC or DC power supplies variety of disk and SSD storage alternatives. It is conveniently only 17" wide to mount with a variety of standard rackmount rails and offers optional base plate mounting screws for secure lockdown to the vehicle.

"The RR2P is designed to facilitate rapid data transfer from mobile vehicles to ground stations in the field. The RR2P will operate at 5° to 40° C and at 10,000 foot pressurized attitudes. Each canister includes four variable fans to provide cooling on demand while reducing noise and vibration at moderate ambient temperatures. Canister fans are shock and vibration isolated from the disk drives by a floating mount for added field reliability. Two additional large capacity cooling fans on the rear panel provide abundant cooling for the system as a whole. A front-mounted LCD on each canister provides power, activity and status information.

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