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Up to 90TB of TLC 3D NAND SSDs (From Samsung or SanDisk?) in Dell Arrays

At $1.66/GB

Dell Inc. announced adoption of  new, high-density and low-cost-for-performance enterprise flash drives, helping organizations of all sizes to reduce costs associated with storing and managing their data and IT applications.

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With Dell’s virtualized storage array architecture and intelligent data placement technology, Dell Storage SC Series array customers can adopt new Mainstream Read-Intensive (RI) SSDs, based on TLC 3D NAND technology. The combination of these technologies and previously available flash and HDD drive options enables customers to benefit from lower flash price-for-performance and increased storage density across all array segments to meet high-end to entry-level customer needs.

For example, Dell now can offer Dell Storage SC4020 enterprise all-flash solutions for as low as $1.66 per gigabyte street price and as low as $0.58 per gigabyte for typical hybrid flash configurations, allowing organizations to receive faster access to critical data for lower than ever storage costs. New all-flash configurations can offer a lower cost per gigabyte street price before applying data reduction technology than leading competitors’ solutions deliver after data reduction.

Dell’s unique intelligent data placement strategy allows different types of flash storage-SLC, MLC and TLC-to be efficiently deployed in multiple tier architectures that can be more cost-effective than single tier flash-based arrays,” said Eric Burgener, research director, storage systems, IDC. “Dell’s announcement of flash drives built on TLC 3D NAND technology puts them in the storage density lead at 45TB per rack unit for flash-based arrays and drops the dollar per gigabyte cost of enterprise flash storage to roughly the same cost as 15K RPM HDDs-with higher performance. Cost has been the single biggest stumbling block to flash adoption in the data center, and Dell’s announcement of a new lower dollar per gigabyte price point for all-flash configurations enables the use of flash technology across an even greater variety of enterprise workloads.”

Dell has achieved growth in flash adoption, growing Dell Storage SC Series all-flash and hybrid flash revenue 89% year over year in the first quarter of 2015. When it comes to deploying enterprise flash/SSDs, CIOs and IT leaders have selected Dell as the overall top vendor of choice, according to a January 2015, SSG-NOW independent survey of 580 global IT leaders.

As the first array vendor to announce support for this latest flash technology, Dell continues to redefine the economics of enterprise storage and tear down cost barriers to flash adoption,” said Alan Atkinson, VP and GM, Dell Storage. “With these advancements, we can substantially reduce the cost of high-performing, flash-optimized arrays while also cranking up the performance of affordable, general purpose arrays. Customers can purchase or update existing arrays to benefit from the performance and density of enterprise flash at unparalleled costs.”

Dell’s virtualized storage array architecture enables an inventive approach to intelligently leverage multiple flash types in the same array based on workload goals and usage patterns. This has led to a series of high-speed, yet economical Dell Storage flash-optimized arrays in both all-flash and hybrid flash configurations. Since cost has been the primary barrier to flash adoption, Dell has focused on efficient drive utilization to reduce the overall cost of enterprise flash.

Dell Storage Arrays Lower Flash Cost and Increase Density
Across All Array Categories
With Dell’s patented Data Progression intelligent data placement technology and the release of Dell Storage Center 6.6 array software, Dell Storage SC Series arrays can adopt and optimize new Mainstream RI flash drives based on TLC 3D NAND. These Mainstream RI drives are the lowest-cost per gigabyte, highest-density enterprise flash drives, enabling Dell to offer SSDs at approximately the same price per gigabyte as high-end 15,000rpm HDDs and up to 24 times performance improvement, up to six times the density, lower latency and lower power consumption.

Dell’s flash-optimized Data Progression software allows the company and its customers to leverage leading edge flash technologies to create more affordable, high-performance solutions. In flash-optimized solutions, Dell now offers arrays that combine the new Mainstream RI flash drives with the highest-performing Write-Intensive (WI) flash drives. With this approach, intelligent array software steers all writes to the higher endurance flash and manages writes to the lower cost Mainstream RI drives. This lowers the overall cost of Dell’s enterprise flash array solutions while maintaining high performance.

As a result, Dell removes the cost barrier to enterprise flash adoption across the full portfolio of Dell Storage SC8000, SC4020 and SCv2000 Series with hybrid flash or all-flash array configurations, improving the performance of affordable general purpose arrays and reducing the cost of the high-performing flash-optimized arrays.

With the new drives, available in capacities up to 3.8TB, flash becomes more practical at any scale. The SC4020 can provide a complete 90TB array in 2U of rack space. Additionally, SC8000 arrays can support 62% more flash for a total of up to 3PB of raw flash capacity in a single array.

SC Series arrays will begin supporting Mainstream Read-Intensive flash drives, based on TLC 3D NAND technology, in August 2015.

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