StorageQuest All-Flash Storage Appliance Based on CF Cards

StorageQuest Inc. announce the availability of its Flash Storage Appliance (FSA).

This new hardware product provides high throughput storing and retrieval over the network to an array of sixteen removable Compact Flash chips. The device is able to provide network based iSCSI connectivity to host systems and allows concurrent R/W access to each individual Compact Flash. The FSA device features an LCD + keypad for setup and management.

Capacities ranging from 1GB to 256GB per Compact Flash for a total online capacity of 4TB.

Each device includes an optional copy of the StorageQuest Archive Manager (SAM) Software. It allows users and applications to group multiple remote Compact Flash chips together for greater capacity. SAM also includes features such as read and write caching, remote replication (cloud, RAID, optical libraries or additional Compact Flash mediums). All Compact Flash chips are tracked and catalogued automatically as they are removed from the FSA.

Pricing is from $7,995 MSRP for hardware and software.

"This new product leverages the popularity, availability and price of industry standard Compact Flash media and transforms it into a portable archival and retrieval storage system," according to Brendan Lelieveld-Amiro, director of product development. "It’s current application lends itself well to the Security and Intelligence communities looking for portable, automated long term archiving of evidence data."

"Our mission is to provide our clients a variety of scalable hardware and software storage technology options, that fit their particular needs, for long term archiving," said the president and CEO of StorageQuest, Marwan Zayed.

StoragQuest customers include law enforcement, government security and intelligence, aerospace, medical and broadcasting.

The StorageQuest Archive Manager software supports the following technologies: IBM tape libraries – TS3100 & TS3200, DISC and HIT optical libraries, Imation A-8 RDX, StorageQuest optical network appliance, and FSA.