CacheIO Qualifies Micron M500 960GB SSDs

CacheIO LLC has
qualified the Micron M500 960GB SSD from Micron Technology, Inc. in its all flash array designed for media
workflow applications.

CacheIO will demonstrate the all flash array utilizing the M500 960GB
SSDs in a 4K film production environment at the NAB tradeshow in Las Vegas, NE. The
demonstration will be held in conjunction with 4K film application leaders including
MTI Film and Digital Vision. 

By incorporating the M500 960GB
SSDs, CacheIO can now scale its all flash array to 40TBs of usable SSD
storage. This provides economics and scale linearly across
multiple arrays to tens of terabytes under one single file system. The CacheIO
proprietary software preserves the performance and endurance of M500
SSDs for more than 10 years. Each CacheIO flash array provides a
bandwidth of more than 140Gbps, enabling real-time streaming of up to nine
concurrent uncompressed 4K streams, with no performance loss due to the
fragmentation suffered by traditional HDD-based systems. Its compact design incorporates up to 18 x 8Gbps FC ports which can be shared by
many media production workstations under the management of Quantum’s StorNext
file system.

"We’re
seeing tremendous interest in the M500 SSD for cloud, media, and Web 2.0 applications,"
said Justin Sykes , GM of Micron’s personal storage SSD team. "Customers are thrilled to see high
reliability and performance coupled with TB-class capacity in a single SSD."

"As
media production moves to 4K, 8K and higher frame rates, it’s essential to
support media workflows with affordable, large capacity, high bandwidth, long
endurance solid state storage that does not lose performance to file
fragmentation," said Bang Chang, CEO of Cache IO. "CacheIO is pleased that Micron has delivered
the ideal SSD to meet these requirements. The Micron M500 960GB SSD leads the
industry with the highest bandwidth and largest capacity, coupled with a new
level of price competitiveness."