ScaleFlux: Availability of CSD 2000 Series Computational Storage Drives in U.2 and PCIe Add-in Card Form Factors

ScaleFlux, Inc. announced the availability of its next gen of Computational Storage Drives, the CSD 2000 Series, targeted at enterprise and datacenter deployments.

The CSD 2000 improves application performance and reduces flash storage costs over ordinary NVMe SSDs.

Available in U.2 and PCIe add-in card form factors, it integrates hardware compression/decompression into its SSD controller. The combination of this feature with the company’s flash Translation Layer (FTL) is an offering in the industry. Unlike other compression options which introduce added latency, burden CPU cores and create system bottlenecks, the CSD 2000 enables users to take advantage of the storage cost savings of compression while actually reducing latency, improving transactional performance, and integrating with mission critical database applications such as MySQL, PostgreSQL and Aerospike. Based on customer testing, the CSD 2000 typically stores 2-4x its physical capacity (e.g. the 4TB drive yielding 8-16TB of effective capacity!) – providing value compared to ordinary NVMe drives at a similar price point.

Application performance also improves with the CSD 2000. Aerospike deployments, for example, see both a 50% uptick on ACT transactions per second and 2x effective storage capacity. MySQL and PostgreSQL testing shows similar gains, with additional applications in testing and qualification.

The company has partnered with Alibaba, Inc. to qualify Computational Storage for usage with the hyperscaler’s cloud data center infrastructure stack. The two companies jointly presented a technical paper titled ‘POLARDB Meets Computational Storage: Efficiently Support Analytical Workloads in Cloud-Native Relational Database‘ at Fast 2020, a premier academic conference for file and storage technologies.

The firm’s technology is an element in achieving TCO benefits with this storage solution.

Quoted from the paper’s abstract: “To the best of our knowledge, this is the first real-world deployment of cloud-native databases with computational storage drives ever reported in the open literature.”

“We are delighted to expand the applicability and ease-of-use of Computational Storage with the CSD 2000 Series,” said JB Baker, senior director, product management. “Experience gained from the global deployment of our previous drives have led us to significant enhancements in the CSD 2000. Customer feedback is showing that the simultaneous reduction in storage costs and improvements in application latency and performance – compression without compromise – is a compelling value proposition.“

The CSD 2000 Series is available in 4TB and 8TB U.2, with the 4TB and 8TB Half-height, half-length PCIe add-in card SKUs coming soon.

Resource:
Video: What is the CSD 2000 Series? – ScaleFlux Technology Series

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