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Why Toshiba SAS SSDs are the best option for your DellTM servers Growing Adoption for Solid State Drives’ (SSDs) While SSDs have become popular with consumers as a way to improve the performance of their personal computers, more recently, enterprises have been turning to SSDs as the storage of choice when performance is a priority. This spans storage solutions for transaction-intensive applications, financial, big data analytics, and media broadcast, as well as a variety of e-commerce applications. As businesses become reliant on these SSD-based solutions, performance is not only imperative, but so is reliability, support, and the total cost of ownership. Furthermore, their customers have come to expect a quality of service that separates these elite solution providers from the rest. It’s not enough to take the default components with your new server. You must analyze the requirements of your workloads and apply a holistic approach when assessing the performance of a system. This will ensure all of its components are a good match!
SSDs for Speed There are no moving mechanical components to SSDs, unlike a hard disk drive. Rather, data is stored in NAND memory. Given that there is no mechanical latency associated with SSDs, they yield significantly faster read performance, which makes them a better choice for low latency applications and some storage tiers for Big Data applications. For the latter, the SSD helps to address data velocity, which defines the speed at which data flows in and the HDD helps to address data volume, which defines the amount of data being generated. For Big Data applications, implementing a tiered storage architecture consisting of both SSD and HDD storage will not only help manage data velocity and data volume, but it will also help organizations improve ROI.
Enterprise-Grade Performance with SAS Interface is just as important to performance as storage drive type. Enterprise SSD storage comes in a few “flavors” of interfaces including SATA (Serial ATA) and SAS (Serial Attached SCSI). SATA is a more cost effective interface delivering 6Gbit/s. For this reason, it is typically used in applications where performance is not paramount. For workloads requiring higher data transfer rates and high availability features, the SAS interface would be the optimal choice. It delivers 12 Gbit/s performance–, and the dual port capability provides a redundant path to each drive in the event of a controller failover. SAS is the best fit for those applications where reliability and high availability are as important as speed.
Toshiba – A Leader in Storage A 40-year history of storage innovation and expertise has allowed Toshiba to develop a broad portfolio of proven storage products. Toshiba’s high standards of quality and market proven reliability make its storage offerings an excellent choice when configuring your Dell servers.
Toshiba SAS SSD + Dell PowerEdgeTM Servers = Powerful Combination In February of 2016, Toshiba America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC) announced its collaboration with Dell as the first global server original equipment manufacturer (OEM) to use Toshiba’s PX04S SSDs. With this family of drives, Dell now offers SAS-based servers with the fastest random read enterprise SSDs1 in today’s market. Dell PowerEdge R730 servers, using a single PX04S drive, demonstrate 340K random read IOPS2, making them Dell’s fastest available SAS-SSDs3. The 12Gbit/s4 SAS PX04S Series is available in a full lineup of models to meet every endurance and application workload requirement – including high endurance, mixeduse, and read-intensive options – and capacities up to 4TB5 with consistently excellent all-around performance and encryption options. The PX04S Series features a Toshibadeveloped controller and Toshiba-developed NAND to provide a vertically integrated SSD, providing effective system and application performance in servers and storage.
About Toshiba Toshiba is committed to providing customers with quality service and reliable products. As a leading provider of storage solutions and the principal inventor of NAND flash, Toshiba is dedicated to storage excellence and innovation. Toshiba delivers a comprehensive portfolio of proven storage products to meet a broad range of technology needs. The design and reliability of Toshiba enterprise HDDs and SSDs, and broad portfolio of other resource-optimizing technologies, allow our customers to address the ever-growing storage market requirements.
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1. Random Read 4KB (IOPS) speed based on published web specs as of January 29, 2016. 2. IOMeter demo was shown at Dell World 2015 and Dell EMC World 2016 using the PX04S SSD with firmware for Dell in a MD1420 storage enclosure. Results are accurate as of Dell EMC World 2-16 demo date of 10/20/16 3. As of November 1, 2016 4. Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device, read and write conditions, and file size. 5. Definition of capacity: Toshiba defines a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000 bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2 for the definition of 1TB = 230 = 1,099,511,627,776 bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, such as Microsoft Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications, or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary. © 2017 Toshiba Memory America, Inc. All rights reserved Dell and PowerEdge are trademarks of Dell, Inc. Information in this article, including product pricing and specifications, content of services and contact information, is current and believed to be accurate on the date of the announcement, but is subject to change without prior notice. Technical and application information contained here is subject to the most recent applicable Toshiba product specifications. 10/1/2017
