16Gb FC All-Flash Arrays NeoSapphire 3605 and 3611 by AccelStor

AccelStor, Inc. announced the new NeoSapphire 3605 and NeoSapphire 3611, a pair of dedicated all-flash arrays with dual-port 16Gb FC interfaces and sustained 360K IO/s for 4KB random writes.

NeoSapphire 3605 offers 5TB usable capacity while NeoSapphire 3611 provides 11TB in 1U rackmount form factor.

The low latency and high reliability of FC makes these new arrays for demanding, time-critical applications including banking, finance, and media production. Reliability is enhanced by hot-swappable drives and redundant power supplies.

“With these two new FC flash storage arrays, I’m delighted to say that we’re now able to offer a full product range that supports all the key connectivity technologies that our customers are asking for: 10GbE, IB, and FC,” said Dr. Charles Tsai, president, AccelStor. “There’s also significant demand now for SSD storage arrays that deliver high performance and great capacity, but are also compact and allow more space for future expansion, particularly for upgrade scenarios. These new arrays address that demand head-on.“

Optimized Low-Latency Performance for SANs
The FC interfaces ensure low latency for SANs. Dual-port 16Gb FC, and backward compatibility with 8Gb, makes these arrays easy to integrate into existing SANs for applications such as banking and media production. Multipathing features allow connection redundancy for I/O balance, fail-over, and seamless fault recovery. These features boost IT staff productivity and make deployment easier.

20 Drives in 1U Rack Space
The NeoSapphire 3611’s all-flash hardware design makes it a compact storage solution, with 20 trays of SSDs in a single rack unit. It offers a substantial saving of rack space, compared to traditional arrays and competing products, and allows extra room for future expansion, making it a choice when upgrading from traditional storage devices. The NeoSapphire 3605 offers 10 trays of SSDs in 1U rack space.

Sustained 360,000 IO/s for 4KB Random Writes
Deploying a NeoSapphire 3605 or 3611 all-flash array can provide transfer speeds up to 3 times faster than traditional mechanical HDD drives. As for random I/O processing, sustained performance of 360,000 IO/s helps resolve the storage bottlenecks that often hamstring operations such as server virtualization and database traversal.

Get More from Flash with AccelStor’s FlexiRemap
NeoSapphire series are equipped with AccelStor’s exclusive FlexiRemap software-defined flash technology. Designed for sustained performance and reliability even in the random-access scenarios typical of enterprise storage needs, FlexiRemap software technology remaps random data writes as sequential ones whenever it is beneficial, before passing them to the underlying SSDs. It avoids unnecessary overheads and extends SSD lifespan by reducing the number of write/erase cycles. Thanks to the global wear-leveling algorithm, these arrays have at least twice the longevity of typical legacy RAID-5 flash systems. With FlexiRemap, data is protected, drive endurance is improved, and random-access speed is accelerated.

Thin Provisioning and Zero-Page Deduplication
The NeoSapphire 3605 and 3611 allow for more flexible storage capacity planning and budgeting, with their support for thin provisioning. Thin provisioning keeps physical storage needs to a minimum at the initial deployment stage, avoiding the need to add storage hardware until it is really required. In addition, zero-page deduplication purges empty pages to save valuable flash capacity.