ScaleFlux Lowers Total Cost of Ownership for Flash Storage to Less Than One Cent per Gigabyte per Year with Micron QLC
May 26 2021 - 9:00AM
ScaleFlux, Inc., the leader in deploying Computational Storage at
scale, today announced it has expanded its Computational Storage
Drive (CSD) portfolio to include quad-level cell (QLC) NAND Flash
storage from Micron Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq: MU). 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.”
AvailabilityMicron N28A QLC NAND is available
as part of ScaleFlux’s CSD portfolio today. To learn more, read
ScaleFlux’s economics blog and technical blog for details.
Helpful Links
- Visit ScaleFlux’s website
- Email to request a demo
- Follow ScaleFlux on Twitter and LinkedIn
- Join the ScaleFlux team
About ScaleFlux, Inc.ScaleFlux is the pioneer
in deploying Computational Storage at scale. Computational Storage
is the foundation for modern data center infrastructure that
provides responsive performance, affordable scaling, and an agile
platform for data-driven, compute and storage I/O intensive
applications. Founded in 2014, ScaleFlux is a well-funded startup
with a team proven to deploy complex computing and solid-state
storage solutions in volume. For more information, visit
www.scaleflux.com.
Contact
Shannon Campbell
Offleash for ScaleFlux
scaleflux@offleashpr.com
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