Dual Port NVMe Drive Test Platform by SANBlaze

SANBlaze Technology Inc. launches a dual port NVMe drive test platform.

This appliance allows dual port 2.5″ NVMe drives to be connected to a host system, creating an easy to use test and development platform for drive vendors. It enables customers to perform engineering debug, quality assurance and validation in small scale lots. The system also features Quarch functionality to enable sig, glit,ng, power measurement, and hot-swap support on the dual ported devices under test.

NVMe provides a standards-based approach for PCIe solid state storage access that improves performance by reducing latency and streamlining the command set, while providing support for security and end-to-end data protection.

“In continuing our leadership role in NVMe innovation and flash array SSD storage, SANBlaze is excited to introduce a Dual Port NVMe SSD drive test tool that validates dal por drive performance, critical redndanc and multi path failover, for mission-critical and HA SSD flash array SAN applications. We are continuing our commitment to offering ‘Best in Class’ test tools that continue to be critical to the validation test effort of our customers,” stated Rick Walsh, VP, sales and marketing, SANBlaze.

The NVMe test backplane combined with the company’s test software allows developers of NVMe storage devices to reliably QA their product by running test scenarios in the lab before release. The platform provides development teams with tools to do trade off analysis of power versus performance and FW/HW changes or enhancements. Users can also use the NVMe test platform against their own host system via the USB control port to induce errors and ensure the reliability of their own storage system. When used with a company’s NVMe host initiator, the system allows for a variety of test scenarios to be run. This includes I/O performance testing, NVMe conformance testing, automated hot plug testing and error injection.

The SBExpress is a turnkey NVMe 2.5-Inch SSD Validation Test System. It features a comprehensive set of functions applicable to all aspects of a product’s lifecycle, from development to design validation to test and QA. The ability to drive NVMe SSDs with a range of configurable attributes provides engineers with a flexible, scalable tool to simulate real disk and memory access environments and issues. Development, qualification, and certification test cycles can be automated, thus reducing overall test time, and rapidly surfacing errors and non-conformance.

SBExpress hardware also features full power margining under software control and continuous voltage, current, and power measurement at each device while testing. Adding an optional Quarch riser enables signal glitching on all PCIe signals, and Quarch integration into the firm’s VirtuaLUN software allows glitching, PCIe lane failure, and drive controlled/surprise removal operations to occur while testing.