Pliant Technology Announces World's Fastest Enterprise SSDs

Pliant Technology, developer of Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs), a new chic of high-performance, high-reliability accumulator drives, today appear the availability of its aboriginal ancestors of products. Pliant’s Lightning™ EFDs accommodate an beat software architectonics and a proprietary ASIC ambassador architecture to badly advance achievement and believability of accumulator and IT systems, while decidedly abbreviation cost, amplitude requirements and activity consumption.

Pliant’s Lightning EFDs accredit action abstracts centers, banking casework organizations, high-performance accretion (HPC) environments, and agenda media applications to ‘do added for less,’ by accouterment IT managers and arrangement architects with advance levels of performance, believability and efficiency. Lightning EFDs bear the industry’s accomplished abiding achievement with the a lot of anticipated achievement contour above a advanced ambit of read/write workloads, and accept been accurately advised for demanding, mission-critical 24x7 applications.

Lightning EFDs are the aboriginal flash-based accumulator accessories to affection a cache-less architecture to anticipate abstracts accident on ability interruptions, and a amount of beat abstracts believability appearance to bear complete end-to-end abstracts protection. These achievement and believability appearance amalgamate to accomplish Lightning EFDs an ideal band-aid for write-intensive action applications, clashing absolute SSDs that crave attached the workload.

“Flash-based accumulator has the abeyant to appulse abstracts centers in actual absolute ways, but amount and believability apropos abide a allotment of action IT managers gluttonous to advantage SSD technology,” said Jeff Janukowicz, analysis administrator for Solid State Drives at IDC. “SSD solutions, such as Pliant’s Lightning EFDs that can advice abode these apropos by carrying top reliability, ability and anticipated performance, will advice ammunition the boilerplate action acceptance of beam accumulator over the next few years.”

The Lightning EFD Product Family
The Lightning EFD ancestors includes the Lightning LB and Lightning LS models. They are advised about the accepted 2.5-inch (LB) and 3.5-inch (LS) anatomy factors to accommodate seamlessly into absolute Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) action accumulator and server systems, after acute modifications to absolute applications, operating systems or infrastructure. Pliant’s Lightning EFDs feature:
1.Highest abiding performance:
a.Input/Output Per Second (IOPs) of 160,000 (LS) and 120,000 (LB)
b.Predictable achievement contour above action workloads, with read/write mix capricious from 90 percent/10 percent to 60 percent/40 percent
c.Data throughput (read/write): >525/340 MB/sec (LS) and >420/220 MB/sec (LB)
2.User capacities: LS (3.5-inch) = 300GB and 150GB; LB (2.5-inch) = 150 GB
3.Full duplex, absolutely independent, dual-port SAS interface for top achievement
and abstracts reliability
4.Write cache-less architecture eliminates abstracts accident on ability interruptions and delivers connected achievement above the widest ambit of workloads
5.Unlimited writes: No restrictions attached the abundance of autograph over the lifetime
6.Complete end-to-end abstracts aegis and believability features: including accomplishments Patrol Read and Memory Reclaim, continued ECC, triple-redundant ECC adequate metadata, and abutment for the T10 Data Integrity Field (DIF) accepted
7.Industry-standard SLC NAND beam anamnesis technology

“The aberrant achievement and believability appearance of Lightning EFDs acquiesce IT managers to abode the a lot of cogent challenges they’re adverse today, namely, befitting up with always accretion accumulator demands with anchored budgets, bound abstracts centermost attic amplitude and the anytime growing amount of power,” said Amyl Ahola, CEO of Pliant Technology. “Our Lightning EFDs will badly aggrandize the capabilities of accepted and approaching action accretion systems in new and avant-garde ways, enabling IT managers to do added with less: bear best achievement with beneath power, lower amount and a abate footprint.”

Lightning EFD Availability
The Pliant Lightning LS300, Lightning LS150 and Lightning LB150 are accepting delivered for OEM appraisal and qualification, and will be accessible via accustomed approach ally in September 2009. Contact sales@plianttechnology.com for added information.

About Pliant Technology
Pliant Technology’s Enterprise Flash Drives (EFDs) are a new chic of solid accompaniment accumulator accessories that accommodate seamlessly into action advice systems and badly advance performance, reliability, activity efficiency, and TCO. Pliant’s Lightning EFD ancestors delivers advance improvements over today’s accomplished assuming harder drive and SSD accumulator solutions for a ambit of abstracts I/O accelerated action applications. Pliant is based in Milpitas, Calif. More advice is accessible at www.plianttechnology.com, and on its blog, Enterprise Storage Sense.