Four New SanDisk Enterprise 2.5-Inch SATA SSDs

SanDisk Corporation announced four new additions to its CloudSpeed SATA product family: the CloudSpeed Extreme, CloudSpeed Ultra, CloudSpeed Ascend and CloudSpeed Eco SSDs.

The CloudSpeed SSDs are designed to deliver business-critical performance for the mixed-use, read and write-intensive application workloads that have become increasingly prominent in enterprise data centers and cloud computing environments.

By combining its flash management Guardian TechnologyPlatform with memory technology, SanDisk ships 10 full drive writes per day (DWPD), 19nm-based enterprise SATA SSDs. The CloudSpeed products thus provide customers with longer-lasting drive operation at a better value. The announcement was made at the Interop and cloud Connect IT Conference and Expo taking place March 31-April 3 in Las Vegas, NV.

“Organizations in every industry are turning to SSDs to meet the challenges faced by growing volumes of data,” said John Scaramuzzo, SVP and GM, enterprise storage solutions, SanDisk. “However, finding a solution that meets the performance and cost needs of your individual environment can be difficult. The CloudSpeed SATA SSD product family was designed to meet the needs of applications across the read-write spectrum, meaning organizations and server designers no longer need to make tradeoffs between system performance and cost.“

An estimated 90% of the world’s data has been generated within the last two years, effectively catapulting the enterprise into the era of big data. Traditional HDD drive-based data centers are struggling to keep up with increasing performance demands because they lack the throughput, consume a lot of power, and are not as reliable as SSDs. As a result, organizations are searching for new ways to structure their data centers in order to manipulate and analyze large pools of information and drive better business decisions.

“We are only at the early stages of becoming a data-driven society that wants instantaneous access to our information,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research director, IDC. “To deliver real-time or near real-time insight to drive business decisions, organizations worldwide will need to consider high performance storage solutions, such as SSDs, thereby driving demand for these solutions in the coming years.”

The CloudSpeed SATA SSDs provide the performance and reliability to meet the demands of various enterprise application workloads-such as OLTP, VDIs, analytics, HPC, Web 2.0 content repositories and media streaming. This enables enterprise IT organizations and system vendors to simplify design efforts when developing data center systems for multiple applications.

SanDisk CloudSpeed SATA product family offers
following range of endurance and performance capabilities:

• CloudSpeed Extreme – This high-endurance SSD achieves up to 10 full capacity DWPD with a 5 year warranty and delivers up to 75K/25K IO/s of random R/W performance for write-intensive application workloads such as database logging and HPC. It comes in capacities ranging from 100GB to 800GB and supports up to 14.6PB Written (PBW) to the drive over its life.
• CloudSpeed Ultra – This high-performance drive achieves up to 3 full DWPD with a 5 year warranty and is optimized for mixed-use application workloads such as OLTP, financial transactions, email/messaging, e-commerce, VDI and collaboration. It is offered in capacities ranging from 200GB to 800GB, and delivers up to 80K/25K random R/W IO/s and supports up to 4.4 PBW.
• CloudSpeed Ascend – This high-end drive is designed for read-intensive application workloads such as file servers, web-based applications and VTLs. It comes in capacities ranging from 240GB to 960GB, achieves up to 1 full DWPD with a 5 year warranty, delivers up to 80K/15K IO/s and supports up to 1.8 PBW.
• CloudSpeed Eco – This entry-level SSD is designed for read-intensive application workloads such as Web servers, Web 2.0 content repositories, photo sharing, media streaming, video on demand and cloud computing. It comes in capacities from 240GB to 960GB, achieves up to 1 full DWPD with a 3 year warranty, delivers up to 450/400 MB/s of sustained R/W performance and 80k/15k R/W IO/s and supports up to 1.0PBW.

SanDisk’s proprietary Guardian Technology Platform, comprised of FlashGuard, DataGuard and EverGuard technologies, work in concert to provide the data protection and endurance for demanding cloud and enterprise data center applications. The CloudSpeed family of SSDs also offers customers high reliability and data integrity by employing a combination of error correction and detection technology, data path protection, thermal monitoring, and data fail recovery of up to 1 NAND flash erase block.

Additionally, SanDisk manufactures its own NAND and has direct control over the design, controller firmware, assembly, testing and supply chain, which delivers innovative products, enterprise-grade quality control and supply assurance.

The CloudSpeed SSDs have begun sampling with select customers and will be available through channel partners in mid-Q2 2014.