HGST has announced its new series of NVMe-compliant Ultrastar SN100 PCIe SSDs, the SN150 (3200GB and 1600GB) and the SN100 2.5-inch form factor (3200GB, 1600GB and 800GB) which integrates Toshiba’s current MLC NAND flash. HGST indicates that it will drive the next wave of application acceleration with simplified PCIe SSD system integration coupled with HGST’s experience in industry. The standardized NVMe protocol for PCIe SSDs enables broad system interoperability as well as ease of deployment, which results in lower cost of ownership.
HGST has announced its new series of NVMe-compliant Ultrastar SN100 PCIe SSDs, the SN150 (3200GB and 1600GB) and the SN100 2.5-inch form factor (3200GB, 1600GB and 800GB) which integrates Toshiba’s current MLC NAND flash. HGST indicates that it will drive the next wave of application acceleration with simplified PCIe SSD system integration coupled with HGST’s experience in industry. The standardized NVMe protocol for PCIe SSDs enables broad system interoperability as well as ease of deployment, which results in lower cost of ownership.
The NVMe Ultrastar SN100 series of SSDs targets application and database acceleration, virtualization, and big data analytics and will be offered as a half-height, half-length (SN150) add-in card and in a standard 2.5-inch drive form factor (SN100), with capacities up to 3.2TB. For added NAND Flash endurance and reliability, the Ultrastar SN100 series will deploy HGST’s CellCare NAND management technology optimized for Toshiba MLC NAND Flash.
HGST will also be implementing NVMe-compatible extensions to deliver new levels of application integration by enabling value-add software layers to interface with the PCIe SSD’s NAND flash management. With these HGST extensions, software can interact with the SSDs in a more comprehensive way and realize data management optimizations that deliver twice the performance and twice the endurance compared to solutions without this capability.
Target use cases:
- Cloud, hyperscale, enterprise and high performance computing
- Suitable for the most demanding scale-out database workloads
- Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) and Online Analytical Processing (OLAP)
- High Frequency Trading (HFT)
- Virtualized computing
- Space and/or power constrained environments
Pricing and Availability
HGST is currently sampling the Ultrastar SN100 SSD series, pricing is not yet available.
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