Infortrend storage systems now available with High-Speed STEC MACH16 SSDs.

Infortrend ESVA, EonStor DS and EonNAS are now available with STECs high-performance MACH16 SSDs. These storage solutions are thereby even more efficient and meet the needs of mission-critical applications.

MACH16 SLC SSDs include (Singel-Level Cell)-models with capacities of 100GB and 200GB and an output of up to 26,000 IOPS. They have a data transfer rate of up to 250MB/s (read) and 180MB/s (write).

MACH16 SSDs are from now on available in all ESVA systems, the EonStor DS and EonNAS family (in models where 3.5-inch drives can be mounted) with a hard drive connectivity of 6Gbit/s SAS and all solutions of the EonNAS 3000-series from Infortrend.

MACH16 Product Highlights

• Up to 400GB capacity (MLC) model
• Available in LFF and SFF design
• Continuous high transfer rates of up to 240MB/s (write) or 180MB/s (read)
• Up to 26,000* read and up to 16,000* writes per second (IOPS)
• Absolutely suitable for use in RAID subsystems
  • STEC S.A.F.E:  SSDs with SAFE (Secure Array of Flash Element) have a particularly high reliability. The Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) and Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL) is significantly increased
  • STEC Cell Care: Provides a consistently high read performance and also ensures high write performance - even with MLCs. SSDs with CellCare support writing 10-times the capacity of the drive per day

* At MACH16 SLC model

SSDs in virtualization

The virtualization of clients, servers and storage systems offers many approaches to improve the availability and performance noticeably by using SSDs.

Virtualized clients (Citrix XenDesktop, VMware View) benefit directly by reducing boot times; the STEC SSDs entirely play off their consistently high access performance.

A perfect application scenario for the combined operation of STEC SSDs with SAS hard disks (7,2k and 15k) in Infortrend ESDS systems, however, is the so-called "Profile Driven Storage" on VMware vSphere 5.0. With this feature allocated storage can be connected to an ESXi 5.0 host in various performance categories (gold, silver and bronze).

Through "Storage DRS" the VMs (virtual machines) always get the appropriate storage assigned - especially critical VMs are moved automatically to the performant SSDs, less critical VMs run on  15k HDD or 7.2k HDD storage.

Solutions for Storage Virtualization (FalconStor, DataCore SANsymphony) can use  MACH16 LUNs directly as read and write cache, and for storage tiering.

More info:

Infortrend ESVA product page

Infortrend ESDS product page

Infortrend EonNAS product page

STEC product page

Datasheet: STEC MACH 16 (PDF)

Whitepaper: STEC MLC Flash Based SSDs (PDF)

Whitepaper Reliability of Enterprise-Class SSDs (PDF)