STEC Solid State Drive technology is relieving storage I/O
bottlenecks and reshaping the traditional storage paradigm,
making storage system architects rethink the way enterprise
storage systems are designed.
While server processor speeds have increased on a regular
basis over the years, disk drive storage technology has not
kept up. While enterprise class hard disk drive (HDD) densities
and sequential throughput performance have improved, random
access performance gains have been minimal from generation
to generation. Storage system manufacturers must aggregate
(RAID) hundreds, sometimes thousands of HDDs to achieve the
performance requirements of a particular customer application.
The typical storage paradigm leaves data starved servers and
users waiting for data contained on rotating media hard disk
drives. Access latency due to mechanical rotation is the reason
most server processors today are underutilized. This is the
I/O bottleneck in most configurations. Adding more servers
and storage to the problem can help but at significant cost
in the form of hardware, software, licensing, energy, cooling
and maintenance costs.
In ZeusIOPS, STEC has created the fastest NAND
Flash solid state drive available today. Our advanced, proprietary
architecture delivers industry-leading all-around performance
but really stands-out in transactional applications. With
near-zero access times and sustained random IOPS (Inputs/Output per second) at 52,000 for reads and 17,000
for writes, just one ZeusIOPS drive can replace
the transactional performance of more than two-hundred 15,000RPM
enterprise class disk drives.
Each of the graphs below represents an application usage
model or workload with the benchmarking utility IOMETER. We
tested ZeusIOPS against a leading NAND Flash solid state drive
and also against the fastest 15,000 RPM enterprise class disk
drive on the market. Each of these workloads is pre-configured
to test the drive in a way that effectively simulates a "File
Server" or "Web Server" application. |
