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In den letzten Monaten haben sich Solid State Disks zu einer ernsthaften Konkurrenz für magnetspeicherbasierte Festplatten entwickelt. Speziell die letzte Generation ist aufgrund des sich immer weiter verbessernden Preis/Leistungsverhältnisses auch für den normalen PC Anwender interessant. Wir haben uns 4 aktuelle Modelle aus den Häusern Kingston, Patriot und Crucial genauer angesehen und in 3 verschiedenen Kategorien miteinander verglichen
Sie rücken immer weiter vor, Solid State Disks - kurz SSDs. Das Rennen findet nun mehr zwischen den Controllern statt, als zwischen den Herstellern der SSDs. JMicron war gestern, nun sind Controller von SandForce, Toshiba oder Barefoot auf dem Markt gefragt. Der Elektronikriese Samsung entwickelt weiterhin seine eigenen Controller. Doch welcher Controller erzielt derzeit die besten Ergebnisse in Verbindung mit Flashspeichern? Wir haben uns fünf Solid State Drives mit aktuellen Controllern von den Herstellern G.Skill, Samsung, ADATA, OCZ und Kingston in unsere Redaktion bestellt, um herauszufinden welche von ihnen am Besten abschneiden.
The SMART Storage Systems XceedIOPS 2 eMLC SSD is the latest and greatest from the company with a long line of success. For SMART, who became privastely owned last year, this segment of the market is ‘old hat’. With all Tier 1 OEMs as customers, they are embedded deeply into the enterprise market. Now they are bringing the XceedIOPS 2 to the table, with Toshiba Toggle eMLC NAND and the LSI SandForce SF-2582 processor, to further their high endurance line of enterprise SSDs.
The race to get the performance and longevity of expensive SLC flash at MLC prices has been going on for some time now. SMART Storage Systems believe that their unique blend of technologies has the potential to replace SLC-based drives in many applications, helping to tip the scales of price vs. performance in favor of high-endurance MLC products.
The CloudSpeed 500 leverages SMART Storage Technology's Guardian Technology suite to provide a low-cost SSD that features enhanced endurance and performance, along with host power-fail protection.
Many organizations implement a “rip and replace” model using cheaper consumer-grade SSDs, and when they inevitably meet their demise under intensive workloads, they’re simply removed and replaced with new drives, increasing the cost of storage. Instead of moving up to much pricier solid state storage options, simply burning though cheaper drives makes more financial sense. SMART Storage System’s new CloudSpeed 500 is aimed to fill that gap with a “just right” combination of 3x the endurance of consumer drives at an attractive price.
At Storage Vision 2013 in January, SMART Storage Systems made a splash with the announcement of the CloudSpeed 1000 and 1000E enterprise SSDs. We have been patiently waiting for our chance to put these drives through their paces. In SSD time, it felt like an eternity but with our previous experience with their Optimus SSDs, we knew the wait would be worth it. Plus, SMART had a busy summer, as their acquisition by Sandisk was finalized just last week, so we will cut them some slack.
As you may have guessed, the CloudSpeed series focuses on enterprise server and cloud computing environments. Specifically, they are optimized for the mixed workload conditions that typical enterprise SSDs encounter. The CloudSpeed series is outfitted with the features you would expect from an enterprise SSD, such as error correction and detection, power loss protection, data path protection, data fail recovery and AES 256-bit encryption. SMART also throws in thermal management for good measure.
Welcome to Myce’s review of the Smart Storage Systems Optimus SAS Enterprise SSD.
Smart Storage Systems (hereafter referred to as Smart) is a member of the Smart family of global companies. This family is a leading supplier of electronic subsystems for the most demanding OEMs around the world. So, whilst Smart may not be as well known as some of the household names such as Intel and Samsung, they are very well known to the large OEMs, such as IBM having won large scale contracts for the supply of Solid State Storage (‘SSS’) solutions to be used within OEMs’ integrated server solutions.
I find the term OEM a bit confusing, it stands for ‘Original Equipment Manufacturer’, so it sounds to me as if Smart is an OEM but within the computer industry it is the IBMs of this world (the systems integrators that buy specialist parts from other companies, which they then package into an integrated solution for their customers) that are regarded as the OEMs.
Smart was acquired by the Silver Lake, Private Equity Company in 2011. Silver Lake is widely regarded as being the global leader in technology investing with over 23 billion USD in combined assets under management and committed capital. They are also regarded as having unparalleled Technology Sector expertise and have a reputation for investing in market leaders that are positioned for dynamic growth. So suffice to say, Smart is well funded and is, in my opinion, very likely to be one of the big winners in the SSS industry as the battleground continues to grow in the coming years.
The SMART Optimus heralds the beginning of a new era for the datacenter, the inclusion of MLC NAND SSDs into roles typically only served via SLC high-endurance SSDs. Providing SLC-like endurance from MLC NAND sounds like a magic trick or marketing hype at its finest.
Around Computex we started hearing about SandForce SF-1500 controllers being paired with SAS interfaces. At first we didn't think these products would live to see the light of day since the SATA versions were already very fast. Well, we were wrong and the first SandForce SF-1500 SAS drive is on my desk right now in engineering sample form.
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