HGST, a Western Digital company, announced today that it shipping its new NVMe compliant PCIe SSD series, the Ultrastar SN100 series. HGST is billing the drive series as "the industry's highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs." Hot on the heels of Intel's new PCIe SSD, the SN100 series is designed for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases powering today’s largest online and cloud services.
HGST, a Western Digital company, announced today that it shipping its new NVMe compliant PCIe SSD series, the Ultrastar SN100 series. HGST is billing the drive series as "the industry's highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs." Hot on the heels of Intel's new PCIe SSD, the SN100 series is designed for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases powering today’s largest online and cloud services.
HGST's Ultrastar SN100 series is aimed at data center professionals that are looking for high application performance at a low total cost of ownership. Combining the new SSD series with HGST server software (specifically the HGST Flash Software Suite and HGST Device Manager) creates a server-side Flash platform solution that delivers clustering, scalability, high availability, and manageability for performance applications.
The Ultrastar SN100 series is easy to deploy leveraging standard NVMe drivers without requiring vendor-unique drivers and offer high performance. For a mixed read/write workload, HGST claims the new SSD series can deliver 310,000 IOPS and for MySQL HGST’s server-side Flash solutions can deliver up to 40% server consolidation with up to 60% performance improvement while maintaining existing MySQL architectures.
Key benefits include:
- Support for standardized NVMe driver – Eliminates need to install vendor-unique drivers to realize the performance benefits of PCIe SSDs. NVMe support is part of the server operating system, just like support for SATA or SAS SSDs.
- Performance leadership – Suited for the most demanding enterprise applications, including scale-out database workloads, the Ultrastar SN100 series supports up to 310,000 random mixed read/write IOPS (70/30, 4KB), up to 160,000 random write IOPS (4KB), and up to 743,000 random read IOPS (4KB). Sequential read and write throughput is 3,000 MB/s and 1,600 MB/s, respectively.
- Industry-leading density and choice of form factor – Offered in two form factors: Half-height, half-length add-in card (1,600GB, 3,200GB), and 2.5-inch small form factor SSDs (800GB, 1,600GB, 3,200GB).
- Broad system interoperability – Built upon an industry-standard interface utilizing four lanes of PCIe Generation 3.0 (x4) combined with the NVMe protocol, the new SSDs are supported in a large variety of server systems.
SN150 Specifications:
- Form factor: HH-HL add-in card
- Capacities: 1.6TB and 3.2TB
- Performance:
- Read throughput (max MB/s, sequential 128k): 3,000
- Write throughput (max MB/s, sequential 128k): 1,600
- Read IOPS (max IOPS, random 4k): 743,000
- Write IOPS (max IOPS, random 4k): 160,000
- Mixed IOPS (70/30 R/W, random 4k): 310,000
- Read IOPS (max IOPS, random 8k): 385,000
- Write IOPS (max IOPS, random 8k): 75,000
- Latency 512B (μs): 20
- Reliability
- MTBF: 2 million hours
- Annual failure rate: 0.44%
- Endurance: 3DW/D
- Dimensions: 167.65 x 68.9 x 14.49 mm
- Power consumption (active/idle): 25W / 8W
SN100 Specifications:
- Form factor: SFF 2.5”
- Capacities: 1.6TB, 3.2TB, and 800GB
- Performance(1.6TB and 3.2TB | 800GB):
- Read throughput (max MB/s, sequential 128k): 3,000 | 2,600
- Write throughput (max MB/s, sequential 128k): 1,600 | 1,400
- Read IOPS (max IOPS, random 4k): 743,000 | 634,000
- Write IOPS (max IOPS, random 4k): 160,000 | 107,000
- Mixed IOPS (70/30 R/W, random 4k): 310,000 | 190,000
- Read IOPS (max IOPS, random 8k): 385,000 | 330,000
- Write IOPS (max IOPS, random 8k): 75,000 | 42,000
- Latency 512B (μs): 20 | 20
- Reliability
- MTBF: 2 million hours
- Annual failure rate: 0.44%
- Endurance: 3DW/D
- Dimensions: 100.45 x 69.85 x 15 mm
- Power consumption (active/idle): 25W / 8W
Availability
The SN1500 HH-HL add-in card is shipping now in both 1.6TB and 3.2TB, and the 2.5" SFF Ultrastar SN100 SSDs are expected to be available in May 2015, in 800GB, 1.6TB, and 3.2TB.
