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HGST to Ship NVMe Compliant PCIe SSDs

In HHHL card or 2.5-inch small form factor up to 3.2TB

HGST, Inc., a Western Digital company, is shipping its NVMe compliant Ultrastar SN100 Series PCIe SSDs – a hight-performing NVMe compliant SSDs.

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Suited for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases powering today’s largest online and cloud services, the HGST SN100 series enables businesses to achieve a better return on their data center infrastructure investments by realizing gains such as more database transactions per second, lower access latency and easier application scaling.

The new HGST PCIe SSDs are a building block for delivering HGST server-side flash solutions. In these solutions, the Ultrastar SN100 Series SSDs are combined with HGST server software – specifically, the HGST Flash Software Suite and HGST Device Manager. This combination creates a server-side flash platform solution with superior TCO that delivers clustering, scalability, HA and manageability for performance applications.

For MySQL, HGST’s server-side Flash solutions have delivered up to 40% server consolidation with up to 60% performance improvement while maintaining existing MySQL architectures.

The Ultrastar SN100 Series’ performance is demonstrated by its capability to deliver 310,000 IO/s for mixed R/W workloads that are commonly found in a variety of mission-critical data center applications, including traditional and scale-out databases, virtualization, and big data analytics.

With our new Ultrastar SN100 Series, HGST is helping today’s data center professionals meet one of their most important and difficult storage challenges: deliver extremely high application performance in a cost-effective manner,” said Mike Gustafson, SVP and GM, HGST flash platforms group. “By standardizing the deployment process with NVMe, IT organizations can now realize unprecedented gains in terms of application performance, server consolidation, and simplified setup and management in Linux, Windows and virtualized environments. This milestone is important as it allows customers to easily implement high-capacity PCIe SSDs at scale in a variety of data center environments.

The Ultrastar SN100 Series delivers value by minimizing the cost of deploying and managing high-performance storage in scale-out and cloud environments. It leverages standard NVMe drivers to take advantage of the benefits of PCIe without requiring vendor-unique drivers. This makes the Ultrastar SN100 Series as easy to deploy as traditional storage devices while offering the best performance.

The Ultrastar SN100 Series is available in both a low profile half-height, half-length (HHHL) add-in card, and a hot-swappable 2.5-inch small form factor  drive for serviceability. Both form factors are available in a density of up to 3.2 TB.

Key TCO benefits of the Ultrastar SN100 Series include:

  • Support for standardized NVMe driver – Eliminates need to install vendor-unique drivers to realize the performance benefits of PCIe SSDs. NVMe support is part of the server OS, just like support for SATA or SAS SSDs.
  • Performance – Suited for the demanding enterprise applications, including scale-out database workloads, supports up to 310,000 random mixed R/W IO/s (70/30, 4KB), up to 160,000 random write IO/s (4KB), and up to 743,000 random read IO/s (4KB). Sequential read and write throughput is 3,000 MB/s and 1,600 MB/s, respectively.
  • Density and choice of form factor – Offered in two form factors: Half-height, half-length add-in card (1,600GB, 3,200GB), and 2.5-inch small form factor SSDs (800GB, 1,600GB, 3,200GB).
  • System interoperability – Built upon an industry-standard interface utilizing four lanes of PCIe Generation 3.0 (x4) combined with the NVMe protocol, the new SSDs are supported in a variety of server systems.

The Ultrastar SN150 HH-HL add-in card is shipping. The 2.5-inch SFF Ultrastar SN100 SSDs will be available in May.

HGST’s new NVMe technology advances the performance and capacity for scale-out MySQL architectures,” said Vadim Tkachenko, CTO, Percona LLC. “Coupled with their flash software enhancements, we see new capabilities to reduce TCO for cloud data centers.”

Industry comparisons for NVMe-compliant SSDs utilizing the NVMe Devices listed on the NVMe Integrators List v1.1b published by the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory as of March 30, 2015

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