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Winchester Systems® Announces FlashDisk SATA with Enterprise-Class Disk Technology
Supports new 400 GB enterprise-class drives

Burlington, MA September 21, 2005 - Winchester Systems, Inc., a leading data storage solutions company, today introduced 400 GB hard drives in its entire line of Serial ATA (SATA) disk arrays.

Winchester Systems has incorporated WD Caviar® RE2 drives into its FlashDisk® SATA disk arrays with 12, 16 or 24 drives to provide capacities of 4.8 TB, 6.4 TB or 9.6 TB in a single enclosure. The company's expandable SATA arrays incorporate a 16-drive base unit and up to three 16-drive expansion units for a total capacity of 25.6 TB. For the largest applications, a 1U RAID head with dual controllers supports a cabinet with up to 224 drives with a maximum capacity of nearly 90 TB.

The high capacity WD Caviar RE2 SATA drives are reliability rated at 1.2 million hours MTBF (mean time between failure) in high duty cycle environments. WD Caviar RE2 hard drives also employ RAFF® (Rotary Accelerometer Feed Forward) technology, which maintains drive performance in servers and storage arrays where rotational vibration robs performance.

"Our customers demand the utmost in reliability in our full line of high capacity, low cost per gigabyte systems. By incorporating high reliability WD hard drives, Winchester is able to meet and exceed their expectations," said David Geene, Vice President of Sales & Marketing. "Now disaster recovery sites, snapshot volumes, digital, audio, video, web, pre-press, mirroring, data acquisition and other large scale storage projects can rely on enterprise-class reliability in a low-cost unit."

FlashDisk SATA disk arrays support single or dual 64-bit RAID controllers with dual Ultra320 SCSI or 2 Gb Fibre Channel host connectivity. All the disk arrays incorporate high reliability features including N+1 power, redundant cooling, and UPS support.

"With its support of enterprise-class SATA hard drives, Winchester Systems delivers highly reliable, cost-effective storage solutions," said Hubbert Smith, director of enterprise marketing for WD. "Using high capacity WD Caviar RE2 drives, Winchester's customers have the benefit of high-end SATA solutions to protect their data."

Included with every FlashDisk data storage solution is the FlashConsole appliance, providing complete centralized management using any browser-based workstation on the LAN. FlashAlert, a 24-hour "call-home" remote monitoring and alert service is also included for one year.

Pricing and Availability: Products are available within 3 weeks, with list pricing starting at under $13,000 MSRP.

About Winchester Systems, Inc.
Winchester Systems provides network-attached storage, direct-attached storage, tiered-storage and storage area network enterprise data storage solutions. These solutions include high performance iSCSI, 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.

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