SGI Certifies Smart Storage Systems SSDs

SMART Storage Systems, Inc. announced that Silicon
Graphics International Corporation has certified the company’s CloudSpeed
500 SSD for use in its storage appliances.

SGI selected the CloudSpeed 500 SSD for certification because of its performance,
reliability features, and use of endurance enhanced MLC flash, providing best Cost per Terabyte Written (TBW).

"Every one of our customers is
looking for higher performance from their storage. However, adding IOPS isn’t
enough – the drive must be able to withstand enterprise workloads without
burning out before the warranty is up," said Jose Reinoso, VP of
storage engineering, SGI. "The
CloudSpeed SSDs not only bring great performance to our storage appliances, but
also bring high reliability and the ability to withstand common enterprise
workloads, giving our customers what they require to drive their businesses
further."

To address growing data sets, many enterprise organizations are seeking the
improved throughput that SSDs provide. Trying to maximize their storage budget,
many organizations unknowingly deploy low-cost, client-class SSDs that are not
designed for the write-intensive and mixed workloads typical of enterprise
applications. Over time, the performance and latency of these drives is impacted
as the controller works harder to correct errors. Furthermore, because
client-class drives do not have enterprise reliability features, and leverage
standard MLC flash, they burnout under enterprise workloads which can impact
the business as data is corrupted.

Certified for use across numerous SGI storage appliance platforms, the
CloudSpeed 500 is a SATA 6GB/s SSD that delivers performance of up
to 500/500MB/s sustained read/write performance and up to 60K/20K random IOPS
for the entirety of the five-year warranty period.

Leveraging the Guardian
Technology Platform, a proprietary suite of enterprise features and
enterprise-class endurance enhancement technologies, the CloudSpeed 500 SSD
delivers endurance reaching up to 1,024TBW. The result is a low cost per TBW and the ability for organizations to avoid
the need to constantly rip-and-replace SSDs. In addition, the CloudSpeed 500
SSDs come equipped with a line of enterprise features, including
SMART Storage Systems’ third generation backup power circuitry technology,
data path protection, data fail recovery, thermal monitoring and AES 256-bit
encryption.

"Far too often, we meet with
organizations that have already deployed client-class SSDs in their data
center, and are seeing their storage TCO skyrocket," said John
Scaramuzzo, president, SMART Storage Systems. "The CloudSpeed SSD gives the enterprise the best of all worlds,
industry-leading performance and reliability at the lowest cost per TBW in the
market. Our relationship with SGI will allow us to expand our reach within the
enterprise storage market, and help organizations of all sizes meet their
storage needs and keep their costs in check."