Fastest, Deepest, Onboard Solid-State Storage System Demonstrated

PR Log (Press Release) – Sep 06, 2007 – AUSTIN (TX) (September 6, 2007) - Systems & Processes Engineering Corporation (SPEC) headquartered in Austin, Texas announced the TornadoX™, its latest addition to the Tornado™ Storage System product line. The TornadoX™ is the world's most capable onboard, solid-state recorder/data storage system.

Providing a variety of interfaces (such as Gigabit Ethernet, Fiber Channel, SCSI) and with an AES 256 encryption card option, the TornadoX™ has demonstrated continuous link record rates of over 728Mb/s, read rates over 690 Mb/s and aggregate concurrent read-while-write rates of over 900Mb/s. SPEC expects to double these rates within the next 6 months. Additional data links can be utilized to accommodate even higher data rate requirements.

Designed for operation in extreme environments, the conduction cooled TornadoX™ is the ideal onboard data storage system for simultaneous support of management systems, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) systems, communications systems, and instrumentation systems. In addition to its high speed data
transfer capability the TornadoX™ is designed to accommodate demanding solid-state storage mass requirements. SPEC is producing systems with up to 1.6TBytes of non-volatile solid state storage (FLASH) capacity. The system can be configured for storage in excess of 3TBytes capacity.

Mr. Randolph E. Noster, President and CEO of SPEC, was very pleased with the latest results saying, "SPEC has designed and is delivering the world's most rugged, fastest, deepest solid state data storage systems. The TornadoX™ is the high-end of our Tornado™ storage systems product line. It is the ultimate in high speed, solid state data storage technology and represents years of dedication and hard work by our staff of senior engineers. With the addition of the TornadoX™, the Tornado™ products are positioned to become an integral part of all ground and onboard, high speed networks, which are engaged in the real-time capture, manipulation and readout of very large files."

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