Seagate Accelerates Enterprise Momentum With Two New Flash Products
August 09 2016 - 8:01AM
Business Wire
60TB SAS SSD, 8TB NVMe SSD New Additions to
Expanding Portfolio Addressing Diverse Data Center Needs
Seagate Technology plc (NASDAQ:STX) announced today at the Flash
Memory Summit conference two new flash innovations that extend the
limits of storage computing performance in enterprise data centers
to unprecedented levels. The new products include a 60 terabyte
(TB) Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state-drive (SSD) — the
largest SSD ever demonstrated — and the 8TB Nytro® XP7200 NVMe SSD.
These two new products represent the high performance end of
Seagate’s Enterprise portfolio – a complete ecosystem of HDD, SSD
and storage system products designed to help customers manage the
deluge of data they face and move the right data where it’s needed
fast to meet rapidly evolving business priorities and market
demands.
The 60TB SAS SSD and 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD are the newest
additions to Seagate’s data center portfolio and are designed to
help enterprise IT leaders obtain more value from the rapidly
expanding amount of data they must contend with, even under the
most demanding application requirements. The 60TB SAS SSD features
twice the density and four times the capacity of the next
highest-capacity SSD available today — equivalent to the capacity
needed to accommodate 400 million photos on a typical social media
platform, or 12,000 DVD movies. This single controller architecture
also delivers the lowest cost per gigabyte for flash available
today.
The 60TB SAS SSD also simplifies the configuration process of
accommodating “hot” and “cold” data, enabling data centers to use
the same enterprise HDD 3.5 inch storage form factor. This
eliminates the added step of separating out different types of data
for near-term availability versus long-term storage — largely based
on estimations or best-guesses of future data usage. Instead, data
centers can rely on an SSD that helps address their need to quickly
accommodate and ensure accessibility of ever-increasing large
amounts of data without having to add additional servers or
incorporate additional management steps. And, because of the
drive’s flexible architecture, it also provides a pathway for data
centers to easily grow from the current 60TB capacity to
accommodate 100TB of data or more in the future — and all in the
same form factor.
Similarly, the 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD can accommodate the
hyperscale needs of today’s data centers seeking to easily grow
with their data without losing the ability to quickly access and
process it — a scenario commonly seen in applications involving
high performance computing, scale-out databases and big data
analytics, such as scientific research and weather modeling. It
features a single PCIe interface for high-speed data transfers and
four separate controllers, providing processing power up to four
times faster than comparable drives, but without the higher cost,
power levels and latency required from a PCIe switch or bridge.
Applications can process more transactions faster using the
industry’s highest bandwidth through one PCIe slot, and without
having to invest in more hardware. Additionally, the technology
easily integrates into all-flash system arrays.
“AccelStor’s core focus is on providing all-flash arrays that
offer tremendous performance and reliability to meet the demands of
the fast-growing cloud and enterprise markets. Critical to
achieving this, though, is having the right building blocks —
including exacting solid-state engineering and software
innovation,” said Dr. Charles Tsai, president of AccelStor, Inc.
“AccelStor works with Seagate Technology to seamlessly integrate
our state-of-the-art FlexiRemap software technology with Seagate
Nytro NVMe SSDs. The result: we’re able to translate SSD
performance into complete all-flash arrays that help data centers
extract the most value from their data.”
The 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD will be available through channel
partners in calendar Q4, 2016. Future availability of the 60TB SAS
SSD, currently a demonstration technology, is anticipated for some
time in 2017.
“The explosion of data can translate into more value for
enterprises, if they have the right means to accommodate that
data,” said Brett Pemble, Seagate’s general manager and vice
president of SSD products. “If anything is certain, it’s the fact
that across industries, the limits of data growth are boundless.
Seagate is committed to staying on top of this growth and, in turn,
ever-changing customer needs, and providing new and varied
technologies to help customers stay ahead of the data management
curve. New products like the 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD and 60TB SAS
SSD are testament to that.”
“Given the demands on today’s data centers, optimal technologies
are those that can accommodate an immense amount of data as
needed—and without taking up too much space. As such, we are
constantly seeking new ways to provide the highest density possible
in our all-flash data center configurations,” said Mike Vildibill,
vice president, Advanced Technologies and Big Data, Hewlett Packard
Enterprise. “Seagate’s new 60TB SAS SSD offers an exciting
possibility for customers to achieve higher server storage
performance and capacity configurations never seen before.”
Flash Memory Summit - Product Demos and Keynote
Presentation
Seagate will demonstrate the 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD and 60TB
SAS SSD — in addition to the recently announced enterprise products
including the 2TB Nytro XM1440 M.2, the Nytro 7102 PCIe AIC and the
Nytro 1230 SATA SSD — in booth #505 at the Flash Memory Summit 2016
conference.
Phil Brace, president of Seagate Cloud Systems and Silicon
Group, will present the FMS keynote address, “Design Efficient
Storage Systems with Both Flash and HDDs,” on Wednesday, Aug. 10,
at 2:40 p.m. Pacific. The presentation will address the role of
flash memory and hard drives in meeting the data storage and
management needs of today’s data centers.
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file format, features, and application software. Your computer’s
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report a lower capacity. In addition, some of the listed capacity
is used for formatting and other functions and will not be
available for data storage.
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