SanDisk has announced its new CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SATA SSD for cloud service provider (CSP) and software-defined storage (SDS) vendor environments in capacities up to 1.6TB. Designed for mixed-use and latency-sensitive transactional workloads–including e-commerce and collaborative online services–the CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II boasts 32,000 4K write IOPS with 530MB/s in throughput. Additionally, SanDisk quotes their drive with 80ms in random read write latency as well as 99.9 percent QoS.
At just over $0.04 per IOPS, the CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II is certainly built with a focus on both value and performance, providing its users with an attractive price/performance ratio and excellent latency-sensitive workload performance. SanDisk also believes that this cloud elasticity allows the drive to meet today’s cloud-capacity standards all the while avoiding poor hardware resource utilization, wasted energy, and weak system- and software-level security.
In addition, the CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SSD comes with SanDisk’s innovative Guardian Technology Platform, which is a combination of efficient error correction and detection technology, full data path protection, and data fail recovery. SanDisk’s new SSD includes a limited five year warranty.
CloudSpeed Ultra 2.5” SATA SSDs Specifications
- Interface: SATA 6Gb/s
- Sequential Read/Write: Up to 530/460 MB/s **
- Random Read/Write (IOPS): 76K/32K IOPS**
- Average Write Latency: 56µ (microseconds)
- Capacity/NAND: 15nm MLC, 400GB, 800GB, and 1.6TB
- Data Reliability (BER): 1 unrecoverable error in 1017 bits read**
- MTBF: 2 Million Hours
- Data Fail Recovery: Flexible Redundant Array of Independent Memory Elements (FRAME) Technology
- Power Fail Recovery: Write cache immunity with in-flight data protection
- Temperature Monitoring: S.M.A.R.T. warning with performance throttling
- DWPD (Random/Workload): 1.8 DWPD
- Power:
- VCC: 5.0 V +10%/-5%
- Active (Typ.): 3.8W average sequential write 2.6W average sequential read
- Idle: 1.3W
- Environmental:
- Shock (operating): 1000g @ 1.0 ms, 1 shock along each axis, X, Y, Z in each direction
- Vibration (operating): 3.22 g rms 5-1,000 Hz
- Operating Temperature: 0⁰ C to 70⁰ C (internal)
- Storage Temperature: -40⁰ C to 95⁰ C
- Humidity: 5% to 95% non-condensing, relative humidity
- Warranty: Lesser of 5 years or maximum endurance used
Availability
The CloudSpeed Ultra Gen. II SSD is slated for an August availability to select CSP and SDS customers as well as on a staggered channel release through the Enterprise Channel Partner program.
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