Pliant Technology Inc. today released its first series of enterprise-class solid state disk (SSD) drives based on a proprietary ASIC design that the company claims can handle -- without using any cache -- more than twice the input/output operations per second (IOPS) as the top competitive drives.
The first two two enterprise flash drive (EFDs), the EFD LS and EFD LB models, are 3.5-in. and 2.5-in. drives that can produce up to 180,000 IOPS and 140,000 IOPS respectively. The 3.5-in. drive can produce up to to 500MB/sec sustained read or 320MB/sec write rates and the 2.5-in. up to 420MB/sec read and 220MB/sec write rates, Pliant said.
"Put it on a log application and write to it as hard as you want for five years -- it will run 24/7 for at least that long," said Greg Goelz, vice president of marketing at the three-year-old startup.
Pliant also claims there is no limit to the number of writes that can be performed to the drive and that it will work without slowdown for at least five years. The drives are aimed at equipment manufacturers such as EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems Inc., the company said.
More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9137909/
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The first two two enterprise flash drive (EFDs), the EFD LS and EFD LB models, are 3.5-in. and 2.5-in. drives that can produce up to 180,000 IOPS and 140,000 IOPS respectively. The 3.5-in. drive can produce up to to 500MB/sec sustained read or 320MB/sec write rates and the 2.5-in. up to 420MB/sec read and 220MB/sec write rates, Pliant said.
"Put it on a log application and write to it as hard as you want for five years -- it will run 24/7 for at least that long," said Greg Goelz, vice president of marketing at the three-year-old startup.
Pliant also claims there is no limit to the number of writes that can be performed to the drive and that it will work without slowdown for at least five years. The drives are aimed at equipment manufacturers such as EMC Corp., Hewlett-Packard Co., Hitachi Data Systems and Sun Microsystems Inc., the company said.
More: http://computerworld.com/s/article/9137909/
