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CASE STUDY:

Revolutionizing Storage Performance
Through SSD Technology

Enterprise Storage Leader gains significant system-level performance and a 98% reduction in energy consumption with the adoption of ZeusIOPS Solid State Drive.

For more than a decade, market leaders for high end enterprise storage systems know what it takes to be on top and that change is inevitably part of the process. But to further enhance performance while reducing the system’s power consumption would be a challenge. These leaders turned to STEC, a pioneering leader in solid state drive (SSD) technology focused solely on the demanding enterprise storage space.

NEW LEVELS OF PERFORMANCE

Recently, the leading systems provider for high-end storage premiered in their flag-ship platform system the first ever enterprise-class deployments of solid state storage. This announcment is the result of more than a year of comprehensive testing and qualification. Because of their strong position as the industry leader in terms of performance and reliability is reinforced in its ability to integrate SSD into its existing systems and introduce this highest tier of storage to customers with the most demanding performance requirements.

STEC was able to provide the ZeusIOPS Fibre Channel SSD that was system compatible with the hard disk drives they were already using. More importantly, integration of ZeusIOPS into their premier high-end networked storage systems created unprecedented levels of performance and energy efficiency for their most demanding applications. They believe that flash-based solid state storage is a game changing technology and that STEC is at the forefront of the SSD market. Over the past year, extensive collaboration has ensured that the ZeusIOPS Fibre Channel drive meets the stringent quality, availability and reliability requirements of the enterprise storage market.

Energy efficiency advantages of the ZeusIOPS within the premier storage system per 100K IOPS Performance:

ZeusIOPS SSDs, in the same form factor as industry standard 3.5” hard disk drives, provide significant performance improvements, power savings and improved total cost of ownership. In terms of performance, while hard drive access times are measured in milliseconds, access times for ZeusIOPS SSDs are measured in microseconds, enabling significant improvement in data input/output and latency.

The ZeusIOPS is the fastest SSD available, based on all critical facets of sustained sequential throughput and, most importantly, sustained read and write input/output per second (“IOPS”). Given the transaction-intensive nature of high-end enterprise storage systems, the ZeusIOPS drives are optimized to deliver the highest levels of transactional performance.

Prominent product specifications include:

	•	Up to 52,000 Sustained Random Read IOPS
	•	Up to 17,000 Sustained Random Write IOPS
	•	Up to 250MB/sec sustained, sequential reads; 200MB/sec sustained, sequential writes
	•	Interfaces: Fibre Channel, SAS and SATA
	•	Form Factor: 3.5-inch standard HDD dimensions
	•	Weight of less than 0.4 kg

STEC’s technology gives a significant advantage in system-level performance and further validates the surge in SSD adoption, marking an important milestone in the evolution of enterprise storage.