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NASA's Earth Science Community
Gets Fast, Reliable Access to Growing Petabye of Data

Burlington, MA.  March 26, 2008. Winchester Systems Inc., a leading data storage solutions provider, today announced that NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) established in 1991 as a division of the NASA Langley Research Center has utilized 1.5 petabytes of data storage to capture and store stunning earth images.  In 2007 alone, NASA distributed 275 terabytes of data to 34,000 of its customers worldwide.

NASA evaluated traditional EMC and SGI products and settled on FlashDisk data storage arrays from Winchester Systems.  According to David Cordner, Systems Engineer, at NASA Langley, “Winchester Systems price performance tipped the scale in its favor.  We were looking for Fibre Channel Disk Arrays that offered reliable, dense, and high speed performance at an economical price, and that’s what Winchester Systems delivered.”

NASA implemented FlashDisk SA-4500 systems with SATA disks and Fibre Channel connections to their Linux servers with ultra reliable RAID 6 dual-parity data protection powered by a unique ASIC for high-speed parity calculations.

The company’s chief technology officer, Mr. Jerry Namery explained, “As an original NASA engineer at their Electronics Research Center during the initial Apollo moon landings, I am exceptionally proud that NASA uses our products to collect and distribute their spectacular earth images.  We are pleased that NASA chose our products from amongst all the competitive offering and that our products meet their high standards of excellence.”

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.

“NASA was deliberate in their choice of high-speed RAID 6 data protection.  After all, it is not that easy to go back into space to re-shoot pictures of earth.  The value of the data to NASA is literally between astronomical and priceless,” added Mr. Joel Leider, the company’s chief executive officer.

The full article, with example earth photos, is available on the company’s web site at: http://www.winsys.com/success/pdfs/NASA.pdf.

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.

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