ScaleFlux Computational Storage Drive With Micron QLC NAND Flash

ScaleFlux, Inc. expanded its Computational Storage Drive (CSD) portfolio to include QLC NAND flash storage from Micron Technology, Inc.

These QLC drives – with integrated and transparent compression – improve the affordability of flash storage, reducing costs to less than $0.01 per gigabyte per year.

Rapidly-growing flash storage capacity stretches IT budgets, and QLC is attractive for delivering on average 15-20% lower price than its TLC equivalent. However, the tradeoffs when it comes to cost, performance, and endurance have limited the overall adoption of QLC in the data center and enterprise markets.

By adding Micron QLC to the Data Scale Edition of the company‘s CSD product line, the company  is eliminating the performance and endurance tradeoffs, enabling customers to adopt QLC and approach HDD levels of cost per gigabyte. Customers now receive more value from their storage dollars – whether leveraging lower-cost QLC instead of TLC for their growing flash sorage footprint, or utilizing QLC as a massively faster tier of warm storage at near-HDD costs.

“Bringing the value of Computational Storage to QLC will improve the affordability of scaling flash deployments,” said Hao Zhong, co-founder and CEO, ScaleFlux. “We are solving the performance and endurance challenges that ordinary QLC drives encounter while expanding the cost savings. It’s a win-win for customers with growing needs for storage that can keep up with today’s data-driven businesses.“

Benefits of ScaleFlux Data Scale edition CSD with Micron QLC include:

• Performance on par with more expensive TLC drives, and up to 6x faster than NVMe QLC SSDs

• Endurance on par with more expensive TLC drives and up to 4x greater than other QLC SSDs.

• Orders of magnitude better performance at near the price of enterprise HDDs

• Transparent compression/decompression

• Extendable capacity for increased cost savings

“We’ve collaborated with ScaleFlux to deliver the enhanced value of QLC NAND to customers,” said Dan Doyle, director, NAND component marketing, Micron. “ScaleFlux CSD with Micron’s industry-leading QLC NAND empowers data center customers to quickly and affordably turn data into intelligence.“

Micron N28A QLC NAND is available as part of ScaleFlux’s CSD portfolio.

Resources:
Blog: Enabling QLC for Enterprise PCIe Flash Deployments – How to overcome the endurance and performance limitations of QLC   
Blog :Enterprise PCIe Flash Storage at <$0.01/GB per year…really? Yes, really.   
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