Voxel, a hosting company based in New York, announced they selected OCZ as an SSD vendor for drives used in their voxSERVER dedicated server products. As an optional upgrade these SSDs aren’t seen in every server, but instead used in configurations where the customer needs very fast I/O speeds in setups such as a database server. Speaking with a representative from the company, the SATA 6.0Gb/s SLC-NAND Deneva 2 as well as the older SATA 3.0Gb/s SLC-NAND Deneva R are the models of choice.
Voxel, a hosting company based in New York, announced they selected OCZ as an SSD vendor for drives used in their voxSERVER dedicated server products. As an optional upgrade these SSDs aren’t seen in every server, but instead used in configurations where the customer needs very fast I/O speeds in setups such as a database server. Speaking with a representative from the company, the SATA 6.0Gb/s SLC-NAND Deneva 2 as well as the older SATA 3.0Gb/s SLC-NAND Deneva R are the models of choice.
Voxel didn’t mention exactly when they started offering these upgrades, but they did mention they have been using these OCZ SSDs in production for some time. In their production environments, Voxel sees RAID1 and RAID10 arrays with the OCZ Deneva SSDs most frequently, although if a custom needs a more exotic option they can easily plan around those requirements. Capacities used varies depending on the customer’s needs, although they did mention the 120GB and 240GB models were popular. It wasn’t stated if those were the usable capacities or if they were 100GB or 200GB over-provisioned models.
It goes without saying that SSDs are finding their home in datacenters across the globe and it is very cool to see these offerings trickling down to dedicated server offerings.
