FMS: From Liqid, Element LQD4500 PCIe Add-In-Card NVMe Up to 32TB

Liqid, Inc. announced the availability of a fast NVMe storage.

The Element LQD4500 PCIe Add-In-Card (AIC), codenamed ‘Honey Badger’ for its fast performance in an thin full-height, full-length (FHFL) form factor, is based on Liqid’s composable fabric and software.

The offering takes advantage of the Gen 4 PCIe specs to outperform legacy architectures and deliver up to 4-million IO/s of random performance, more than 24GB/s of throughput, and transactional latency of 20µs.

The device is available in capacities up to 32TB to neutralize the demanding mission-critical, data-intensive workloads.

At FMS, the company was conducting live demonstrations of Element LQD4500 with partners including Phison Electronics Corp., One Stop Systems, Inc., Toshiba Corporation, and PCI-SIG.

“The sheer scale of modern storage environments restricts how effectively businesses can leverage their valuable data for actionable intelligence. Solutions such as Liqid’s Honey Badger NVMe AIC, that offer both ultra-high performance and density by fully embracing the increased throughput and latency reductions of Gen 4 specifications, introduce new opportunities to address this dilemma,” said Scott Sinclair, senior analyst, storage systems and software, Enterprise Strategy Group. “With adaptive resource management built into the Liqid’s core software, the Honey Badger can jump-start or augment composable infrastructure with data performance not previously available, making it a compelling solution for the most demanding environments.“

Composable, Gen 4 NVMe for ferocious data center applications
The low-latency fabric ensures IO/s performance, agility, capacity, and bandwidth for the LQD4500 and all Element NVMe solutions. Composable NVMe storage can be leveraged at enhanced Gen 4 speeds in tandem with disaggregated pools of GPUs, FPGAs, CPUs, and Intel Optane for AI, 5G IoT and edge computing, dynamic cloud deployments, high-performance computing, and other high-value applications.

The Element LQD4500 architecture also enables multiple drive configurations ranging from maximum performance to maximum redundancy. Featuring enterprise power failure protection for increased reliability, it prevents data loss and ensures that data is secured in the event of power failure or other catastrophic events.

Liqid Element LQD4500 brings performance density at the node and rack level, delivering queries-per-second (QPS), transactions-per-second (TPS), parallel threads or simply raw IO/s and low latency.

LQD4500 device delivers features including:

• 24GB/s reads at 128K blocks

• 16GB/s writes at 128K blocks

• Up to 4 million 4K IO/s

• 20µs latency

• Up to 32TB raw capacity

• Power fail protection

• NVMe 1.3 support

• Enterprise features

• SED and TCG support

“Liqid is an innovation leader in PCIe-based fabrics, and again we are setting the bar with the industry’s highest performing, highest density Gen 4 NVMe storage solution capable of 4-million IO/s and 24GB/s to drive advancements in fields critical to business, government and scientific research deployments,” said Sumit Puri, CEO and cofounder, Liqid. “Leveraging the benefits of Gen 4 PCIe, IT users deploying the Honey Badger across Liqid composable infrastructure can further maximize performance and efficiency dynamically composing Gen 4 NVMe alongside other high-value data center resources.“