Storbyte: Ten Years Warranty on Eco•Flash Drives and AFAs

Storbyte announced an all-encompassing 10-year warranty policy on its ECO•FLASH drives and arrays, built with the company’s SSD drive designs providing a balance to maximize performance, density, efficiency, reliability and sustainability.

With this industry defining warranty, the company delivers to their customers investment protection and quality assurance for their enterprise all-flash storage systems.

ECO•FLASH is an architecture and management system for non-volatile memory, with patented technology designed to distribute R/W workloads across hundreds of independent memory modules. This design provides enterprise performance at commodity-based price points, eliminates the write-cliff phenomenon that degrades performance and reduces the total Terabytes Written (TBW) associated with conventional flash memory garbage collection, delivering an ECO•FLASH solution that will extend the life of the memory up to ten times longer than conventional flash systems.

Enterprise environments with intense, uninterrupted R/W data performance requirements such as broadcast/entertainment, cybersecurity and R/W analytics place demands on the capabilities of conventional SSD/NVMe-based storage. At 60 to 75% capacity, if not sooner, the performance impact and accelerated mortality rates result in SSD drives that will reach the end of their functional life in as little as seven months.

“We exceed traditional vendor performance, longevity and price point expectations for all-flash arrays with an industry exclusive design that reduces wear virtually eliminating SSD replacement requirements over the expected installation life of a system,” said Diamond Lauffin, chief evangelist, Storbyte. “Enterprise customers rely on us for product performance, reliability and scale-up, scale-out capacities providing environments that virtually eliminate hardware associated service or support calls over a 10-year window of operation.“

The company’s 10-year warranty offers a 100% unlimited write guarantee based on established MTBF field performance results. Along with these high standards of durability, the ECO•FLASH technology consumes on average 30% less power per terabyte, and generates less heat providing yet another industry defining design advantage resulting in lower energy costs.

ECO•FLASH arrays are available in user definable sizes: ranging from 32TB to 131TB raw capacity in 1U, 64 to 524TB raw capacity in 2U, and 96TB to 1.57PB in 4U, all with user configurable 5:1 compounded average data reduction.

This series is compatible with all existing file systems and third-party storage software; and supports Ethernet, iSCSI, NAS, FC and IB primary connectivity.

These systems support an integrated hybrid/multi-tier spinning disk and JBOD expansion capability utilizing the firm’s expansion packs or any industry standard, user provided open systems hardware. The chassis design provides a component-independent scale-up and scale-out architecture, with a 100% hot-swappable and individual component accessible design reducing administrative downtime to virtually zero.