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Two Seagate PCIe Flash Accelerator Cards

Up to 1.86TB

Seagate Technology plc announced the expansion of its Nytro XP6000 product family with the introduction of two new PCIe flash accelerator cards- the Nytro XP6302 and XP6209 cards.    

Nytro XP6302 Flash Accelerator Card
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The new cards are designed to address market demands for high performance and high capacity in a smaller form factor and for thermally challenging environments, such as low-profile servers with lower airflows.

The new Nytro XP6302 card delivers PCIe flash capacity with competitive performance characteristics in a half-height form factor. The Nytro XP6302 card is designed for optimal density and for performance scaling for high thread count and queue depth workloads.

The second expansion to the Nytro portfolio, the XP6209 card adds a new 1.86TB capacity point doubling the capacity. The new 1.86TB SKU addresses customers’ needs for increased capacity density in low-profile and thermally optimized hyper-converged designs.

These new PCIe flash cards are members of the third generation of Nytro solutions that expand its portfolio of PCIe-based flash accelerator products. This range of products enables data center architects to select the solution for their requirements to support everything from hyperscale cloud and enterprise data centers, to big data, virtual desktops and varying server workloads.

Nytro XP6302 Flash Accelerator Card
Our ongoing innovation in the Nytro product line continues to propel our leadership in PCIe flash acceleration solutions,” said Manish Muthal, Seagate, VP marketing, planning, architecture and PCIe flash solutions. “Given the migration towards hyper-converged infrastructure and the vast computing and storage resources needed to churn through massive amounts of information emanating from the cloud, big data, and hyperscale datacenters, high-performance and high capacity solutions in small footprint are a necessity. The addition of the Nytro XP6302 and the 1.86TB XP6209 cards meet these requirements head on.”  

As a low profile, high bandwidth application acceleration solution designed to address massive data loads while reducing complexity, cost and datacenter space requirements, the Nytro XP6302 card doubles the bandwidth commonly found with most low profile cards. This is due to its multi-planar design that delivers high PCIe flash capacity per slot – up to 1.75TB of usable capacity is provided.

Featuring the latest enhancements in PCIe 3.0 and eMLC flash technology, it can achieve more than twice the bandwidth of competitive offerings (3.5GB/s vs. 1.5GB/s) within a comparable footprint. This enables datacenter architects to more effectively run server-based PCIe flash in their datacenters.

Nytro XP6209 (1.86TB): Reducing Barriers to PCIe Flash Adoption
The relatively higher cost per gigabyte of PCIe flash has often slowed organizations’ adoption of PCIe-based flash. The XP6209 card removes this inhibitor through combining the performance of PCIe flash with lower upfront costs and a low TCO. The 1.86TB version of the Nytro XP6209 card doubles the usable capacity of the currently shipping low-profile and thermally-optimized XP6209. With a focus on aligning the XP6209 card’s endurance with read-intensive applications, the card is able to reduce the cost per user gigabyte. Additionally, as a third generation product, users can expect a reliable solution while keeping maintenance costs low.

It is essential that enterprise datacenters accelerate applications to meet today’s demanding business requirements by increasing storage performance and reducing latency,” said Jeff Janukowicz, research director for SSDs and enabling technologies, IDC. “To address these requirements, customers are increasingly looking to PCIe flash solutions, such as Seagate’s latest Nytro flash accelerator cards, that are performance-optimized for mixed workload environments.

The Nytro product portfolio of PCIe flash accelerators are designed to deliver performance and a low CPU burden for the demanding database applications and I/O-intensive workloads. In addition to these enhancements, the Nytro XP6302 and XP6209 cards feature algorithms and dedicated hardware resources to handle complex flash management tasks like garbage collection and wear-leveling.

The products are available from select OEMs and through the network of distributors, integrators and VARs.

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