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1. Madrid SSD Enterprise conference
Gaetano Pastore
Manager, Sales CE-Russia-Turkey
28 June 2011
2. Agenda
STEC introduction
STEC EMEA support team
Why SSD in Storage
• SSD are not all equal
• Nexenta implementation
Next to come
• Channel program
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3. STEC History and Expertise
The Company The Technology The Products
Building SSDs since 1994 In-House Controller Industry’s broadest
Development portfolio of SSDs
Focused on Enterprise,
Defense and Government Deep Interface Expertise Highly integrated system
customers architecture
SSD Firmware and Logic
Extensive FC, SAS, SATA Design Continued innovation
interface skill & through technology
experience A significant IP portfolio integration
with patents in key SSD
technologies Proven performance,
Flash management reliability and endurance
Controller Technology
Power backup
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5. Continuing Leadership Initiatives
• Continued investment in SSD technology
• Research & Development
• Quality & Reliability
• Growing Engineering resource USA and Penang
• Expanding Manufacturing in Penang
• Strengthened STEC controller technology
• Introduced Secure Array of Flash Elements™ (S.A.F.E.) Technology
• Introduced CellCare™ Technology to bring MLC-based SSDs to enterprise
• Continuous development of flash channel technologies
• Active evaluation of key industry groups
• eNVMHCI working group
• SFF working group
• JEDEC
• SNIA
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6. Building on our Customers’ Success
Markets Customers Innovation
#1 Volume and revenue Largest list of top-tier First to market with
supplier in enterprise global OEMs fully enterprise SSDs
SSDs qualified
First to market with
Leading supplier of Over 20 years experience 3Gb and 6GB SAS
military and industrial- serving requirements of
grade memory products OEM customers Leading in time-to-market
with industrial SlimSATA
>82% CAGR in enterprise Design and FAE support and CFAST
SSDS through 2014 centers worldwide
Leading in SSD controller
integration with
CellCare™ Technology
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7. Most Comprehensive Solid-State Line-up
Performance ZeusRAM
Computing
SAS 6Gb
High
performance ZeusIOPS
Enterprise
Server/Storage
6Gb SAS
Mainstream Enterprise ZeusIOPS
Storage Fibre Channel
Value Enterprise Server/Storage MACH16
Enterprise-Class SATA
CF, Cfast, SlimSATA,
Embedded, Military and Aerospace
for embedded applications
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8. Shipping
ZeusIOPS Gen3 Enterprise SSD’s Now
True enterprise-class solid state drive
• SAS and Fibre Channel Interfaces
Warranty 2.5” 3.5”
SLC Media 5 years 100, 200 GB 100, 200, 400 GB
MLC Media 3 years 300 GB 300, 800 GB
• Variable sector size:
512, 520, 524 and 528 Bytes
• Performance SLC IOPS MLC IOPS
• 4K Random 70/30 Q16 30,000 10,000
• 4K Random R/W, Q16 45K/16K 45K/5K
• 512b Random Read Q16 75,000 70,000
• 256K Sequential Read/Write 380/225 MB/s 350/100 MB/s
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9. MACH16 Enterprise Class SATA SSD
2.5” & 1.8” hard drive form factors
Full data path protection
• Capacities & Form Factors
Warranty 1.8” 2.5”
SLC 5Yr 50, 100, 200
MACH16 Unlimited Write 50, 100 GB
GB
/day
MLC 3Yr 100, 200,400
MACH16 10X capacity Write
GB
200, 400 GB
/day
i-temp version available, details & capacities available on request
SLC Media MLC Media
• 4K Random 70/30 Q16 12,000 IOPS 11,000 IOPS
• 4K Random Read Q16 20,000 IOPS 16,000 IOPS
• 4K Random Write Q16 5,000 IOPS 2,500 IOPS
• 128K Sequential Rd 240 MB/s 240 MB/s
• 128K Sequential Wr 180 MB/s 100 MB/s
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10. ZeusRAM
High IOPS drive for Performance Computing
• 6Gb Dual Port SAS Interface
3.5”
DDR3 SSD 8GB
• 512 Byte Sector size
• Hot Pluggable SAS interface
• Fully backed up DRAM to FLASH Shipping Now
• Built in power backup protection Designed specifically as a
• Dual Port Performance Aggregation “WEAR RESISTANT” SSD
• Low latency, high throughput
• Performance 6Gb-SAS • File system metadata, log store
• Latency <23us • Tier0+ Storage for fast write commit
• Random Read / Write (4K) 69K/51K IOPs
• Random Read / Write (4K) 100K/100K IOPs (Dual Port)
• Sequential Read / Write 475/430 MB/s
• Sequential Read / Write 900/800 MB/s (Dual Port)
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11. STEC EMEA
Giorgio
FAE EMEA
Daniel
North Europe;
Bridget Phoon
East Europe
AE EMEA
Israel; Africa.
Gaetano
Central Europe,
Russia, Turkey
Davide
South Europe:
Italy, France,
Spain, Portugal
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12. Winning storage solution has to bring ...
Improved value proposition
Support large number of users
At better service levels
While reducing operating costs
This can only be achieved by co-optimization of hardware
and software for ideal performance
Workload optimized storage solution
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13. Bridging the storage performance gap
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14. SSD in the Storage Landscape…
Pros: Fast access time (100ns-10us)
Wear-resistant storage
DRAMs during heavy write workloads
Cons: Non-persistent memory (data loss)
Higher Performance & lower latency
Pros: Fast access time (100ns-20us)
Wear-resistant storage
RAM SSDs during heavy write workloads
Lower Cost Per GB
Persistent media
Pros: Fast access time 100us – 200us
SSDs Persistent media
High capacity primary storage
Pros: Highest capacity primary storage
HDDs Cons: Slow access time (10ms range)
Low performance
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15. It is important to use the right SSD…
Consumer Enterprise
- Mobile and Laptop • Storage, SAN, Server
- Low duty cycles • 24x7x365 duty cycles
- Infrequent write activity • Performance & Reliability
- Minimal data protection • Endurance and longevity
A great SSD drive in a Does not make a
mobile application good Enterprise SSD
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16. STEC Enterprise SSDs Key Features
It’s all in the Controller
SAS
Performance
• Consistent steady state performance SSD Controller
Host Interface
Reliability S.A.F.E.
Write Amplification
Reduction
Data Path Protection
(Secure Array of Flash
Elements)
Error
• Advanced Flash Management CellCare™
Detection
Correction
Technology
• Data path Protection Wear
Leveling
• S.A.F.E. TM for Reliability
• Power backup Protection
Endurance using CellCareTM
• For eMLC/MLC SSDs
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17. Flash aware file system (ZFS) + SSD = Best bang for
buck
Storage Head
• ZilCache – Non volatile write ZFS Optimized Read Cache
(L2ARC)
cache STEC ZeusIOPs/MACH16
• Improves synchronous writes
• Small capacity (8GB)
• Extremely write intensive
• Use ZeusRAM
• L2ARC – Read cache
• Speeds up read operations
• ~5% of total storage capacity
• Use ZeusIOPs MLC/SLC SSDs
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Supports 10x users & 3x Response Time Improvement
Microsoft Exchange Workload
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Improvement Factor
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Number of Users Response Time Transactions per
- Storage Head (2U enterprise Server) second
- 22x HDDs
- STEC ZeusRAM + ZeusIOPs
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19. Enterprise SSD System Savings Summary
52%
HDD Only SSD & HDD
Hardware Pwr & Cool
15K HDDs 1TB SATA
Zeus SSD ZeusRAM SSD
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20. Key Takeaways
• Important to pick the right SSD based on target application
• Beware of using consumer SSDs in Enterprise applications
• Consider the needs of the application
• Tiered storage provide the best TCO
• Best bang for buck from each storage tier
• STEC’s has the widest range of SSDs
• ZeusRAM SSDs for ZilCache
• ZeusIOPs SLC and MLC SSDs for L2ARC
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