Record of 24TB for Catalina PCIe SSD From Start-Up NGD Systems Just Out of Stealth Mode

NGD Systems, Inc., in SSDs for public and private cloud data centers, announced the availability of the industry’s highest density flash storage solution.

Shipping immediately and currently being qualified at OEMs, the Catalina SSD is available in capacities up to 24TB with 3D TLC flash in a PCIe edge card form factor.

“The Catalina is the industry’s highest capacity PCIe NVMe SSD, designed and optimized for applications requiring consistent and low latency mass storage“, said Nader Salessi, founder and CEO, NGD Systems. “We are setting a new metric for energy and storage density to meet a key concern within data center and cold storage applications alike.“

At less than 0.65 watts per terabyte, the new benchmark of the Catalina SSD achieved by using NGD System’s patented Elastic FTL (Flash Translation Layer) algorithm, and the incorporation of its error correction capabilities, which enables 3D TLC NAND flash in enterprise applications.

Not only is this watt per terabyte ratio more efficient than that of any other SSD currently shipping, it is also better than the highest capacity enterprise HDD currently shipping. Optimized for read intensive applications, the Catalina SSD is for use in CDN, Just a Bunch of Flash drives (JBOFs), and media severs.

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The start-up was formerly NxGn Data, Inc., the name changing in August 2016.

With HQs in Irvine, CA, NGD Systems, Inc. was founded in June 2013 by former employees of Stec (formerly SimpleTech), acquired for $340 million by Western Digital in September 2013.

The company finalized a $6.6 million series A round in May 2016, investors being Benhamou Global Ventures, National Science Foundation, Plug and Play.

Main executives:

Nader Salessi, co-founder and CEO, was VP at Stec and then VP SSD business unit at WD from 2011 to 2013.

Vladimir Alves, co-founder and CTO, was initially director engineering at Morpho Technologies that he left in 2005 to become senior director SSD SoC engineering for Stec and, after that, joined WD with the same position from 2011 to 2014.
Richard Mataya, co-founder and VP, began at Memtech and BitMicro, then working at Stec as VP hardware engineering from 2005 to 2011, finally becoming WD's senior director of SSD hardware engineering from 2011 to 2014
Bill Haberlin, CSO, was at SiGe Semiconductor and Zarlink Semiconductor.
Eli Tiomkin VP, business development, comes from M-Systems, Stec, Violin Memory and WD.

Among board's members, there are Amir Nayyerhabibi, chairman of NGD Systems, and Eric Buatois, Benhamou Global Ventures

There are just few pages on the company's web site with nothing on its new SSD. The current record capacity announced for an SSD is 60TB by Seagate in 3.5-inch form factor and 32TB by Samsung in a 2.5-inch form factor, both of them ith SAS interface. Here NGD's Catalina reached 24TB on 3D TLC NAND flash, a capacity never seen on PCIe card and furthermore beating largely all HDDs on the market culminating at 10TB and in much larger 3.5-inch form factor. But the start-up didn't reveal major specs like R/W transfer rates, IO/s and price.

The company wrote to us in an email that its device is : "Also enabling a new category of ultra high capacity SSD for active archive and cold storage," and "third category of intelligent SSD for fog storage with edge computing."

NGD has currently Catalina's engineering samples available and a handful of beta customers.

The company has been granted 14 patents in areas of SSD design, with an additional 13 patents filed.

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