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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

American Megatrends launches flash array that can be all-SSD or hybrid

American Megatrends Inc. today rolled out the StorTrends 3500i solid-state drive (SSD) array, which includes both SSD caching and tiering in a single appliance, as well as automatically tuned volumes.

The 3500i is a 3U 16-bay system available fully loaded with flash or as a hybrid configuration of solid-state drives (SSDs) and Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives. An all-flash configuration scales to 32 TB inside the box, and the system can store 56 TB of raw capacity in a hybrid configuration. Additional capacity can be added up to 256 TB with expansion shelves. The 3500i supports 200 GB, 400 GB and 2 TB multi-level cell flash SSDs; 300 GB, 450 GB and 600 GB 15,000 rpm SAS hard drives; and 500 TB, 1 TB, 2 TB, 3 TB and 4 TB 7,200 rpm nearline SAS drives.

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