12Gb SAS SSDs, Lightning Gen. II, Revealed by SanDisk

SanDisk Corporation announced the Lightning Gen. II family of enterprise 12Gb SAS SSDs.

Together with the newly announced Optimus MAX 4TB SAS SSD and updated Optimus SSD product family, they will help businesses meet the performance, uptime and capacity requirements across the range of mixed-use, read- and write-intensive application workloads common in today’s data centers.

“Business data needs are becoming so performance-intensive that even applications that are already using SSDs need an additional boost,” said John Scaramuzzo, SVP and GM, enterprise storage solutions, SanDisk. “The Lightning Gen. II SAS SSDs deliver double the throughput to each slot, empowering organizations to quickly and easily scale their performance infrastructure to meet this growing need.”

The new Lightning Gen. II SSD product family doubles interface speeds over previously available 6Gb/s SSDs, providing higher performance for mission-critical and virtualized data center application workloads. Additionally, the family of drives has a feature-rich, robust design that provides error correction and detection technology, data path protection, instant secure erase, thermal monitoring, and die fail recovery. Lightning Gen. II SSDs deliver predictable performance, reliability and value with a five-year warranty.
 
“SanDisk’s Lightning Gen. II SAS SSDs offer great performance, uptime and capacity for customers with high-intensity business applications,” said Travis Karr, VP and GM, PMC-Sierra, Inc.‘s enterprise storage division. “By combining our industry-leading 12Gb SAS Series 8 adapters, I/O controllers and expander products with SanDisk SSDs, our customers can deliver solutions that scale to keep pace with the exponential information growth in today’s data centers at the lowest cost and power possible.”

Lightning Gen. II 12Gb SAS SSD product family offers
following range of performance and endurance capabilities:

• Lightning Ultra Gen. II SSD – This high-endurance SSD achieves up to 25 full capacity drive writes per day (DWPD) with a five-year warranty and delivers up to 190K/100K IO/s of random R/W performance and sequential R/W speeds of up to 1000/600MB/s for write-intensive application workloads, such as HPC and Database Logging. It is available in capacities ranging from 200GB to 800GB.
• Lightning Ascend Gen. II SSD – Designed for mixed-use application workloads such as VDI, Exchange and File Servers, OLTP and e-commerce, this high-performance drive delivers up to 190K/80K IO/s of random R/W performance and sequential R/W speeds of up to 1000/600MB/s. This SSD achieves up to 10 full capacity DWPD with a five-year warranty. It is available in capacities ranging from 200GB to 1.6TB.
• Lightning Eco Gen. II SSD – This entry-level SSD is designed for read-intensive application workloads that require high-performance, such as data warehousing, media streaming, video on demand and cloud computing. It is available in capacities of 1TB and 1.6TB and delivers up to 180K/35K IO/s of random R/W performance and sequential R/W speeds of up to 1000/500MB/s. The Lightning Eco Gen. II SSD delivers up to 3 full capacity DWPD with a five-year warranty.

The Lightning Gen. II 12Gb SAS SSD product family will be available for sampling with select OEM customers and through the channel in the third quarter of 2014.