SolidFire launches its largest all-flash storage array with SF9010

Solid-state array provider SolidFire announced the addition of the SF9010 model to its line of all-flash storage arrays, with 2.5-inch 960 GB Samsung SSDs and an effective price below $3 per GB and $1 per IOPS. The company also announced a $31-million series C round of financing led by Samsung.

A single SF9010 node is a rackmount 1U form factor unit with 256 GB of memory and 9.6 TB of raw all-solid-state drive (SSD) capacity that provides 75,000 IOPS. With SolidFire's in-house thin provisioning and deduplication technologies, and industry standard compression algorithms, Jay Prassl, SolidFire's vice president of marketing, said a single node's effective capacity is close to 34 TB. He said the SF9010 can run in a 100-node cluster, bringing effective capacity to 3.4 PB.

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