Winchester Systems is the first major storage vendor I’ve seen offering 2TB drives as an option for their enterprise storage systems so far. The latest high-capacity drives are available as an option for their new FlashDisk SX-3400 and SX-2300 SATA disk arrays, enabling the SX-3400 to expand up to 224 TB of raw capacity. The high-end 3400 units have 16 drive slots, and can accept up to six extra expansion shelves.
The units are available with SAS, iSCSI and Fibre Channel ports; the fastest model is the high-end SX-3414R model that is capable of 114.000 read- and 56.000 write iops using RAID 6. This is probably not using the 2 TB drives though; 15- and 10.000 rpm SAS drives are also available, and the 2TB drive option is a 5.400 rpm model. According to their press release, pricing starts at $20k.
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