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.
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.
Friday, January 24, 2014
IBM rebrands SanDisk and Diablo's ULLtraDIMM memory channel storage
SanDisk Corp. and Diablo Technologies Inc. took a step toward getting their ULLtraDIMM solid-state drive (SSD) memory channel storage cards established as a data center staple by winning an OEM deal with IBM.
SanDisk and Diablo revealed this week that IBM rebranded ULLtraDIMM as its eXFlash memory channel storage component that was part of its Jan. 16 flash launch. The eXFlash is available with IBM X6 System x and Pure Systems servers.
Wednesday, January 15, 2014
Slack: How NAND flash degrades and what vendors do to increase SSD endurance
Solid-state drives (SSDs) and PCI Express (PCIe) flash cards are becoming commonly adopted in storage products and servers, but questions remain about flash storage's endurance and life span. In this podcast, Storage Switzerland senior analyst Eric Slack discusses the technical aspects of how NAND flash storage degrades and what vendors are doing to increase SSD endurance.
Friday, January 10, 2014
Storage Products of the Year 2013: Storage Infrastructure Finalists
Data storage infrastructure might be the least sexy yet most important category in the Storage magazine/SearchStorage.com 2013 Products of the Year award competition, and this year we have four strong finalist products. However, only one award will be given in the category this year.
These products put the "network" in networked storage and often figure in the first steps to improved storage performance across the environment. The products eligible for consideration in this category include switches, host bus adapters (HBAs), network interface cards, security devices, converged network adapters, virtual networking and I/O products, and WAN-optimization products.
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