SanDisk Launches New Enterprise Solid State Drives (SSD)—Extends Leadership in Performance and Reliability
Lightning® 6Gb SAS MLC and SLC Drives Qualified and Integrated
by HP
- SLC SSDs available in 100GB, 200GB and 400GB capacities
- MLC SSDs available in 200GB, 400GB and 800GB capacities
- HP qualifies and integrates 6Gb SAS drives; available on HP
ProLiant servers and HP Qualified storage drives
MILPITAS,
Calif., June 20, 2011-SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK),
a global leader in flash memory storage solutions, today expanded
its Lightning® Enterprise Flash Drive (EFD) family with six new
2.5-inch 6Gb SAS (6 gigabits per second Serial Attached SCSI)
models. The Lightning products are part of the new Enterprise
Storage Solutions (ESS) division that SanDisk created following its
recent acquisition of Pliant Technology.
The new drives include three SLC
(single-level cell) flash drives with capacities of 100 gigabytes
(GB)1, 200GB and 400GB; and three MLC (multi-level cell)
flash drives with capacities of 200GB, 400GB and 800GB. The new
drives extend SanDisk's position as the industry leader in EFD
performance, performance predictability and reliability. SanDisk
also confirmed today that HP has qualified and integrated the new
Lightning 6Gb SAS drives into its HP Qualified storage drive
offerings.
"With ever-increasing demands being
placed on cloud and enterprise IT, our OEM partners require data
storage solutions that don't just keep up, but help their customers
stay ahead," said Greg Goelz, vice president and general manager,
Enterprise Storage Solutions (ESS), SanDisk. "Our new Lightning
drives advance SanDisk's industry-leading enterprise-class
performance, reliability and endurance. Meeting HP's stringent
qualification requirements underscores our current leadership with
EFDs as well as our commitment to continue to deliver breakthrough
capabilities."
The six new SanDisk Lightning 6Gb SAS
EFDs provide IT managers and OEMs with new levels of system design
flexibility. The SLC- and MLC-based models feature a new Single
Firmware Binary technology that reduces customer qualification time
and speeds time-to-market. These models feature Write Through
Logging (WTL) technology, a superior solution that delivers high
performance at low queue depths to avoid volatility that would
otherwise require battery back-up or supercapacitors for
protection. WTL operation is completely transparent to the host and
maintains a predictable performance profile across different
workloads.
SanDisk's enterprise-class Lightning
products are integrated into HP Qualified storage drives and
available to customers on HP ProLiant servers, providing benefits
that include performance, reliability and efficiency for storage
applications. The ProLiant DL380 G7 server has been named one of
the top 10 systems in terms of price and performance by the
Transaction Processing Performance Council and is included on the
TPC-C list.2
Today's announcement of the six new
6Gb SAS drives extends the Lighting family to 11 models, making it
the industry's broadest offering of SAS SSD solutions to fit a wide
range of solutions. All SanDisk Lightning EFDs are based on an
advanced controller design and software architecture that delivers
dramatic I/O performance and reliability improvements over
competing SSD technology and low energy consumption in demanding
enterprise computing environments.
The Lightning EFD Product
Family
SanDisk Lightning products are available in a 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch
standard form factor with capacities ranging from 100GB to 800GB.
The new drives are designed to integrate seamlessly into existing
SAS enterprise storage and server systems without the need for
modifications to existing applications, operating systems or
infrastructure. For real-world workloads, Lightning drives perform
2X to 4X better than the competition and maintain very low response
times under the heaviest of workloads. This enables system
designers to build high-performance RAID storage solutions with
multi-terabyte capacities using fewer Lightning drives.
SanDisk Lightning EFDs
Feature:
- Predictable performance profile across enterprise workloads
with mixed read/write workloads, stability over time and during
peak demands
- Full duplex, fully independent, dual-port SAS interface for
high performance and data reliability; wide port support for
integrators needing to aggregate bandwidth from both SAS ports for
the highest levels of throughput
- Write cache-less design eliminating data loss on power
interruptions, delivering consistent performance across a wide
range of workloads
- Complete end-to-end data protection and reliability features:
including background Patrol Read and Memory Reclaim, extended ECC,
triple-redundant ECC protected metadata, and support for the T10
Data Integrity Field (DIF) standard
New Lightning 6Gb SAS EFD
Availability
The new SanDisk Lightning 6Gb SAS models are being delivered for
OEM qualification, and will be available via authorized channel
partners in Q3, 2011. For more information, contact ESS.channelsales@sandisk.com
or ESS.OEMsales@sandisk.com.
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About SanDisk
SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SNDK) is a global leader in flash
memory storage solutions, from research and development, product
design and manufacturing to branding and distribution for OEM and
retail channels. Since 1988, SanDisk's innovations in flash memory
and storage system technologies have provided customers with new
and transformational digital experiences. SanDisk's diverse product
portfolio includes flash memory cards and embedded solutions used
in smart phones, tablets, digital cameras, camcorders, digital
media players and other consumer electronic devices, as well as USB
flash drives and solid-state drives (SSD) for the computing market.
SanDisk's products are used by consumers and enterprise customers
around the world.
SanDisk is a Silicon Valley-based
S&P 500 and Fortune 500 company, with more than half its sales
outside the United States. For more information, visit www.sandisk.com.
1 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1
billion bytes. Some capacity not available for data storage.
2 Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC); TPC
Top Ten Price or Performance Results Version
5 Results; June 2011; www.tpc.org/tpcc/results/tpcc_price_perf_results.asp
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