CloudFest: Swissbit Showcasing Optimization of SSDs for Data Center Application Profiles

Swissbit AG makes its debut at CloudFest 2023, March 20-23, Europa-Park/Rust, Germany, and will make its 1st appearance at the event for the hosting and cloud industry and will showcase its solutions for data center applications.

N4200 SSD series

The star of the show will be the N4200 SSD series developed for data center application profiles. The company will hold a demo to illustrate how using SSDs optimized to a specific customer application environment improves efficiency. This came together with the support of the Swiss CSP Infomaniak, which already relies on the firm’s SSDs. Visitors will also be able to learn more during a session scheduled as part of the CloudFest agenda.

Performance comparison of Swissbit SSD with other SSD solutions over
tentire product life cycle, measured via number of drive fills
(how often drive was completely written to)

At the end of 2022, the company entered the data center market with the U.3 N4200 SSD, which offers a constant write speed that is 2 to 5x higher compared to standard data center SSDs but still maintains a consistently low latency and high endurance over the SSD’s entire service life. While commercially available SSDs suffer drops in performance, endurance, and response time over prolonged periods, the firm takes a new approach with the N4200. The SSD can be optimized for specific application profiles using its firmware so that performance and endurance are matched to the real-world workload of a customer application.

Workload-specific firmware configurations
Customers can choose from predefined workload clusters in advance, including big data, video streaming, or ML, in addition to the default configuration. The N4200 has the ability to measure its workload during operation. The company uses this measurement as a starting point to offer an additional option in the form of an workload analysis, together with the firmware configuration that has been optimized to meet the requirements of the customer application in question. It developed this solution to handle complex cloud applications, achieving the industry’s most stable throughput and lowest latency under real-world customer workloads, without any host modifications.

The 2.5-inch U.3 SSD is based on enterprise grade 3D TLC NAND (eTLC), is backward compatible with U.2, and features a 4-lane PCIe interface to PCIe 4.0 spec for up to 8,000MB/s bandwidth in both directions.

The N4200 is available with storage capacities of 7.68 and 15.4TB.

Resource:
Breakout session: As part of the CloudFest agenda, Hansjürgen Binner, technical account manager, will explain more about Swissbit’s data center solutions in his talk on Disrupting the Data Center SSD Market with Custom Swissbit SSD Solution. The session will take place on March 21 on the Arena Stage.