Toshiba Memory Launches New SAS SSDs for HPE Servers
STORAGE PRODUCT NEWS: Toshiba Memory is the primary vendor to introduce vSAS, a brand new class of SSD that’s anticipated to switch enterprise SATA SSDs in most server purposes.
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise ProLiant server house owners now have an choice to double the velocity of their processes with the addition of latest 12Gb/s solid-state reminiscence disks provided by Toshiba Memory.
Toshiba Memory America, the San Jose, Calif.-based subsidiary of Toshiba Memory Corp., introduced the final availability of its RM5 Series of worth SAS (vSAS) SSDs particularly for HPE ProLiant servers earlier this month.
Toshiba Memory is the primary vendor to introduce vSAS, a brand new class of SSD that’s anticipated to switch enterprise SATA SSDs in most server purposes. Toshiba claims that worth SAS SSDs ship developments in efficiency, capability, manageability, reliability and information safety at comparable value factors. RM5 SSDs are single-ported variations of Toshiba Memory’s sturdy enterprise SAS product household; they supply larger efficiency per slot than competing SATA SSDs, thus enabling higher utilization of system assets beneath I/O intensive workloads.
Since the SATA interface is performance-limited, no future developments are deliberate on its roadmap. In many data-intensive environments, SSDs primarily based on SATA have grow to be a bottleneck to servers, stopping the CPU from performing required operations or transactions in a well timed method. This underutilization of the server’s compute capabilities may have an effect on the variety of customers that may be serviced at one time.Further studying IBM Storwize: New Innovations for Midmarket, Channel #eWEEKchat April 10: How Will We Be Storing Big Data?
Because SATA was designed as a lower-cost interface for consumer-grade onerous drives, its 6 gigabits per second (Gb/s) interface, half-duplex transmission, restricted queue depths and restrictive protocol signifies that it can not make the most of the total capabilities of flash reminiscence.
The RM5 Series delivers twice the interface velocity of SATA, with full-duplex 12Gb/s hyperlinks. The drives make the most of cutting-edge 64-layer BiCS FLASH™ TLC (3-bit-per-cell) 3D flash reminiscence developed by Toshiba Memory Corporation. Available capacities vary from 960 gigabytes (GB) to 7,680GB.
The merchandise help bandwidth and enter/output operations per second (IOPS) than SATA, together with sequential reads as much as 838 megabytes per second (MB/s), sequential writes as much as 650MB/s, random reads as much as 150,000 IOPS, and random writes as much as 50,000 IOPS. Compared to typical enterprise SATA SSDs, the RM5 Series is about 2x sooner beneath blended learn/write workloads, Toshiba claimed.
Providing excessive information safety and reliability, the RM5 Series gives full FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification and helps varied ranges of safety features together with Self-Encrypting Drive (SED) and Sanitize Instant Erase (SIE) configurations. These worth SAS SSDs are straight suitable with most sockets that SATA SSDs are utilized in in the present day, making them particularly worthwhile to allow hardware-based RAID configurations. Since the vast majority of ProLiant servers embody a SAS host bus adapter (HBA) or RAID card, SAS and SATA SSDs can be utilized in the identical…
