AccelStor NeoSapphire 3602 All-Flash Array Number Three in SPC-1 Price/Performance

AccelStor, Inc. announced that its NeoSapphire 3602 all-flash array is ranked #3 in the Storage Performance Council‘s (SPC’s) coveted price-performance category.

Based on SPC-1 result, the NeoSapphire 3602 achieved rank #3 in SPC-1 price-performance with a rating of $0.20/SPC-1 IO/s ^[1]. In addition it delivers an SPC-1 average response time of 0.79ms at maximum SPC-1 throughput.

The NeoSapphire 3602 is an all-flash array that offers dual-port 16G FC and up to 2TB of usable storage capacity in a 1U rackmount form factor. For enterprises, it increases employee productivity, shortens application processing time, and reduces TCO.

“The SPC rankings are an important reference point for our industry and various enterprises, as they provide an independent measure of quality that buyers can trust,” said Weafon Tsao, VP, AccelStor. “We at AccelStor are proud to have our product ranked amongst the very best in the world for the SPC-1 benchmark. This SPC-1 result is a strong validation of our commitment to providing quality products and powerful product performance.“

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Proven storage performance
The NeoSapphire 3602 delivered 227,970.31 SPC-1 IO/s performance for any mission-critical application. It also achieved the SPC-1 price-performance of $0.20/SPC-1 IO/s, ranking the product #3 in the SPC-1 ‘Top Ten’ of price-performance. The results prove that NeoSapphire 3602 is a solution for database and VDI applications in budget-conscious SMBs.

The SPC-1 benchmark measures the performance of a storage subsystem in business critical applications that rely heavily on random I/O queries and updates. Applications include online transaction processing (OLTP), database operations, and mail servers.

Suitable for demanding storage applications
The NeoSapphire 3602’s read and write performance helps resolve storage bottlenecks, while the low latency and reliability of the FC interface makes this array for demanding, time-sensitive applications including banking and finance. Hot-swappable drives and dual redundant power supplies make the arrays more reliable. A dual-port 16Gb FC – backwards compatible with 8Gb – makes this array easy to integrate into existing SANs. The array has space for ten hot-swappable drives.

Response time/throughput data from the SPC-1 benchmark tests show that the NeoSapphire 3602’s write response time was 0.46ms, even when the array handles the benchmark’s maximum throughput/IO/s at the 100% load point. This responsive performance demonstrates the suitability for transaction time-sensitive applications, such as databases and virtualization.

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Sustained performance and reliability
The company emphasizes redundancy and uptime, employing multiple data paths as well as redundant and hot-swappable components for data protection. The NeoSapphire 3602’s enterprise SSDs boost reliability, availability, and scalability. Meanwhile, FC multipathing supports I/O load balancing and failover.

The NeoSapphire 3602 is powered by firm’s FlexiRemap technology for reliability and sustained performance even in random-access scenarios demanded by enterprise applications. It minimizes overhead and extends SSD lifespan by reducing the number of write/erase operations. To avoid unnecessary operations which could shorten drive lifespan, this technology remaps random data writes as sequential data writes before passing them to the underlying flash memory. The global wear-leveling algorithm ensures stability and longevity. With FlexiRemap, data is protected, drive endurance is improved, and random-access speed is accelerated.

^[1] SPC-1 Executive Summary and Full Disclosure Report for NeoSapphire 3602.