ScaleFlux, Inc. announced it has expanded its Computational Storage Drive (CSD)
portfolio to include quad-level cell (QLC) NAND Flash storage from Micron Technology,
Inc. These new QLC drives - with integrated and
transparent compression - dramatically improve the affordability of Flash
storage, reducing costs to less than $0.01 per gigabyte per year.
Rapidly-growing
Flash storage capacity stretches IT budgets, and QLC is attractive for
delivering on average 15-20% lower price than its triple-level cell (TLC)
equivalent. However, the tradeoffs when it comes to cost, performance, and
endurance have limited the overall adoption of QLC in the data center and
enterprise markets.
By adding
Micron QLC to the Data Scale Edition of ScaleFlux's CSD product line, ScaleFlux
is eliminating the performance and endurance tradeoffs, enabling customers to
adopt QLC and approach HDD levels of cost per gigabyte. Customers now receive
more value from their storage dollars - whether leveraging lower-cost QLC
instead of TLC for their growing Flash storage footprint, or utilizing QLC as a
massively faster tier of warm storage at near-HDD costs.
"Bringing the
value of Computational Storage to QLC will significantly improve the
affordability of scaling Flash deployments," said Hao Zhong, Co-founder and CEO
of ScaleFlux. "We are solving the performance and endurance challenges that
ordinary QLC drives encounter while expanding the cost savings. It's a win-win
for customers with growing needs for storage that can keep up with today's
data-driven businesses."
Key benefits of
ScaleFlux Data Scale Edition CSD with Micron QLC include:
- Performance on par with more expensive TLC drives, and
up to 6x faster than NVMe QLC SSDs
- Endurance on par with more expensive TLC drives and up
to 4x greater than other QLC SSDs.
- Orders of magnitude better performance at near the price
of Enterprise HDDs
- Transparent compression/decompression
- Extendable capacity for increased cost savings
"We've
collaborated with ScaleFlux to deliver the enhanced value of QLC NAND to
customers," said Dan Doyle, Director of NAND Component Marketing at Micron.
"ScaleFlux CSD with Micron's industry-leading QLC NAND empowers data center
customers to quickly and affordably turn data into intelligence."
Availability
Micron N28A QLC NAND is available as part of
ScaleFlux's CSD portfolio today.