Server Design Summit 2011 -- STEC, Inc.
(Nasdaq:STEC), The SSD Company™, a leading global provider of
solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and products, today announced
that its flagship ZeusIOPS® SSD family has been expanded to include
a new ultra-high endurance model. Purpose-built for write-intensive
enterprise applications, STEC's new ZeusIOPS XE (Extreme Endurance)
SSD is a Multi-Level Cell (MLC) flash-based drive that utilizes
STEC's CellCare™ technology to enable at least 30 full capacity
writes per day, every day, for five years. Since these new high
endurance drives can withstand more writes before they wear-out,
they reduce total cost of ownership (TCO) in the data center. The
new ZeusIOPS XE SSD will be featured in STEC's booth (#107)
beginning today at Server Design Summit (Santa Clara Marriott
Hotel).
As data growth continues into the zettabytes and is expected to
double every two years, accelerating access to data using
enterprise SSDs as a server caching solution delivers strong value
for application acceleration. However, caching software increases
the writes to the SSD requiring more endurance from the drive to
withstand drive wear that would otherwise deteriorate the storage
media in a much shorter time. A similar problem occurs when
advanced auto-tiering software places the most active hot data on
SSDs as a priority in the storage hierarchy. For these types of
write-intensive applications, many competing SSDs become
challenged, wear out more quickly, require more frequent in-field
replacements, and result in higher maintenance costs.
The new ZeusIOPS XE SSD utilizes a combination of STEC's
proprietary fourth-generation ASIC-based SSD controller and its
proprietary CellCare technology, which when applied to MLC flash,
extends the performance, reliability and endurance capabilities of
these drives. As a result, STEC enables at least 30 full capacity
writes per day for five years and an improvement in random write
performance. It can fully write about 33 Petabytes of data over the
working life of a 600GB drive (which equates to a workload of
writing the full capacity of the drive 30 times per day for 5
years).
"Enterprise networks and data centers need to develop innovative
ways to address the issues caused by the enormous and growing
amount of data being created," said Jeff Janukowicz, research
director for solid-state storage at International Data Corporation
(IDC). "Solid-state solutions, such as STEC's SSD family with its
CellCare technology that improve MLC flash endurance, enhance MLC
SSD performance, and reduce media access error rates for consistent
performance over the entire useful life of the drive, are
increasingly being leveraged to solve these issues and help IT
organizations optimize their storage in a fast, reliably
cost-effective manner."
One of the most important features of STEC's CellCare technology
is its unique ability to measure and manage the wear of the drive
using adaptive flash management algorithms and advanced signal
processing techniques. As MLC flash will wear out faster over time
if not properly monitored and managed, CellCare technology
dynamically and proactively manages the way the flash wears
throughout the life of the drive. The additional use of advanced
error correction code (ECC) techniques enables higher protection
against media errors and improves SSD endurance for write-intensive
workloads without limiting the performance of ZeusIOPS XE SSDs. As
a result, ZeusIOPS XE SSDs are ideally suited for write-intensive
applications with the high endurance necessary to support
server-side caching, auto-tiering, metadata management and logging,
and analytics.
To further improve MLC SSD reliability, ZeusIOPS XE SSDs
incorporate STEC's Secure Array of Flash Elements™ (S.A.F.E.)
technology that prevents data loss associated with MLC flash. It
provides the ability to recover from NAND flash page, block, die
and chip failures while maximizing the Mean Time Between Failure
(MTBF) and Mean Time To Data Loss (MTTDL).
"Our new ZeusIOPS XE SSD solution is a direct response to the
growing customer demands for ultra-high endurance solutions that
address high write activities associated with caching and logging
applications," said Scott Stetzer, STEC's Vice President of
Technical Marketing. "We've engineered our new ZeusIOPS XE MLC
flash-based drives to deliver extended enterprise endurance for the
demanding write-intensive applications and provide our OEM
customers with a superior choice for a cost-effective
enterprise-class SSD that they can rely on."
Offered in MLC capacities of 300GB and 600GB, STEC's new
ZeusIOPS XE SSDs support latency responses up to 50 microseconds
and have a 6Gb Serial-Attached SCSI (SAS) interface. From a
performance perspective, both the 300GB and 600GB capacity drives
support up to 500MB/s (sustained Read throughput); up to 275MB/s
(sustained Write throughput), up to 115,000 input/output operations
per second (IOPS) for Read operations; up to 70,000 IOPS for Write
operations; and 38,000 IOPS for 8K random Read/Write operations (70
percent/30 percent).
ZeusIOPS XE SSDs are now sampling to customers. For more
information regarding this solution or other STEC enterprise
solid-state solutions, please visit Booth #107 at Server Design
Summit or the company's web site at http://www.stec-inc.com.
About STEC
STEC, Inc., The SSD Company™, is a leading global provider of
solid-state drive (SSD) technologies and solutions tailored to meet
the high-performance, high-reliability needs of original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs). With headquarters in Santa Ana, California
and locations worldwide, STEC leverages almost two decades of
solid-state knowledge and experience to deliver the most
comprehensive line of SSDs to the storage industry. For more
information, visit the company's web site at
http://www.stec-inc.com.
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Safe Harbor Statement Under the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995
This release contains forward-looking statements that involve
risks and uncertainties, including those statements concerning
customer adoption, sampling and utilization of ZeusIOPS XE SSD
products; the adoption of ZeusIOPS XE SSD products into new
applications and markets; the benefits from CellCare, Secure Array
of Flash Elements, and other developing technologies; overall
product and solution cost savings; the capabilities and performance
of STEC's products and solutions; and the evolving enterprise
storage and server markets. Such forward-looking statements are
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with the Securities and Exchange Commission made from time to time
by STEC, including its Annual Report on Form 10-K, its Quarterly
Reports on Form 10-Q, and its Current Reports on Form 8-K. The
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events or circumstances occurring after the date hereof or to
reflect the occurrence of unanticipated events.
CONTACT: Scott Harlin
Public Relations Manager
STEC, Inc.
(949) 260-8231
sharlin@stec-inc.com
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