Seagate Demonstrates Fastest-Ever SSD Flash Drive
March 08 2016 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
10GB/Sec. production-ready unit meets Open
Compute Project specifications
Seagate Technology plc today unveiled a production-ready unit of
the fastest single solid-state drive (SSD) demonstrated to date,
with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per second (GB/s). The
early unit meets Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications, making
it ideal for hyperscale data centers looking to adopt the fastest
flash technology with the latest and most sustainable
standards.
The 10GB/s unit, which is expected to be released this summer,
is more than 4GB/s faster than the previous fastest-industry SSD on
the market. It also meets the OCP storage specifications being
driven by Facebook, which will help reduce the power and cost
burdens traditionally associated with operating at this level of
performance.
“Your data is only as good as how easily you can access it and
put it to use,” said Brett Pemble, Seagate’s general manager and
vice president of SSD Products. “Seagate is committed to providing
the full spectrum of technologies to help meet the diverse needs of
organizations so they can unlock this value. Whether for consumer
cloud or business applications, this SSD will help improve on
demands for fast access to information, where split seconds drive
incremental value gains.”
The technology would work with any system that supports the
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol, which was developed by
Seagate and other consortium vendors to replace the legacy Serial
AT Attachment (SATA) standards and eliminate informational
bottlenecks. NVMe helps reduce layers of commands to create a
faster, simpler language between flash devices.
Organizations that would most benefit from this solution include
those processing data for object storage or in real-time, where
speed matters most for results, such as large-scale cloud providers
and web applications, weather modeling, or statistical trends
analysis. The unit could be used in an all-flash array or as an
accelerated flash tier with hard-disk drives (HDDs) for a more
cost-effective hybrid storage alternative.
“Technology advancements continue to stretch the limits of SSD
speed and performance due to growing enterprise demands that
require fast data processing at scale,” said Gregory Wong, founder
and principal analyst, Forward Insights. “Seagate has effectively
rewritten the rules for performance with this latest SSD unit.
Based on our latest analysis, Seagate is already the leading
provider to the emerging PCIe OCP market.”
In addition to the 10GB/s SSD technology, which accommodates
16-lane PCIe slots, Seagate is finalizing a second unit for
eight-lane PCIe slots, which still performs at the industry-leading
throughput of 6.7GB/s, and is the fastest in the eight-lane card
category. The eight-lane solution will provide an alternative for
organizations looking for the highest levels of throughput speed
but in environments limited by power usage requirements or
cost.
Both the 16 and eight-lane SSD units have been made available to
Seagate customers and are expected for product launch in summer
2016. They will be on display at the upcoming Open Compute Project
Summit 2016 in San Jose, Calif. March 9-10 at Seagate’s booth
[#C12].
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