X-IO Selects Smart Storage Systems Optimus SAS MLC SSDs

SMART Storage Systems, Inc. announced that X-IO (Xiotech Corporation) has selected the
company’s Optimus SAS SSD for use in its Hyper ISE
7-Series storage solution.

Designed for enterprise storage environments, the Hyper ISE 7-Series leverages
the Optimus SAS SSD to deliver improved performance of up to 300,000 IOPS, and
enhanced endurance of up to 10 drive writes per day (DWPD), while leveraging
lower cost consumer-grade MLC Flash. The Hyper ISE 7-Series
is designed to operate for five years while utilizing Optimus MLC SSDs and is
supported by X-IO’s exclusive five-year, no-cost, standard hardware warranty.

SMART Storage Systems and X-IO has displayed and demonstrated the new Hyper ISE
7-Series equipped with 10 Optimus SAS 200GB SSDs at SNW Fall, October 17-18, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA.

“The Optimus SAS SSDs
from SMART Storage Systems have everything you need in an enterprise class SSD:
endurance, performance, reliability, and value,” said Steve Sicola,
CTO of X-IO. “The integration of the
Optimus SSD to our Hyper ISE 7-Series significantly increases its overall
performance while reducing cost, making the Hyper ISE 7-Series the winning
storage solution for our customers. Our patented CADP algorithms in Hyper ISE
provide real-time performance ‘up-tiering’ without the need for Flash cache or
any manual tuning for optimum QoS in any application.”

The Hyper ISE 7-Series is a hybrid storage solution that meets
enterprise storage requirements for performance-driven applications. By
offering up to 21.6TB of useable HDD and SSD storage capacity and max
read/write performance of 1.4GB/s, it gives customers the combination of performance and capacity. The Optimus SAS SSD
leverages SMART Storage Systems’ proprietary Guardian Technology Platform to
deliver endurance from consumer-grade MLC flash, as well as a set of
enterprise features to the Hyper ISE 7-Series.

Designed for the enterprise environment, the Optimus SAS SSD
delivers random read/write performance of 100K/50K IOPS and a sustained
transfer rate of 500MB/s, and is available in capacities ranging from
200GB to 1.6TB.

The Guardian Technology Platform is comprised of the
FlashGuard, EverGuard, and DataGuard technologies. FlashGuard enables
commercial MLC flash to achieve higher endurance levels while also resulting in
no performance degradation over the life of the drive, making it suitable for
the enterprise environment. DataGuard and EverGuard technologies ensure data
integrity and drive reliability are never compromised, satisfying the demanding
reliability requirements of tier-1 enterprise storage applications.