FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AccelStor's
New NeoSapphire 3602 All-Flash Array, an SPC-1 Price-Performance Leader
NeoSapphire
3602 ranked #3 with an excellent $0.20/SPC-1 IOPS™
January
19, 2017, Taipei, Taiwan – AccelStor,
the software-defined all-flash array provider, is pleased to announce
that its new NeoSapphire 3602 all-flash array is ranked #3 in the
Storage Performance Council's (SPC's) coveted price-performance
category. Based on a new Storage Performance Council SPC-1 Result, the
NeoSapphire 3602 achieved rank #3 in SPC-1 Price-Performance with a
rating of $0.20/SPC-1 IOPS™[1]. In addition the NeoSapphire 3602
delivers an excellent SPC-1 average response time of 0.79 ms at maximum
SPC-1 throughput.
The NeoSapphire 3602 is an all-flash array that offers dual-port 16G
Fibre Channel and up to 2TB of usable storage capacity in a compact 1U
rackmount form factor. For enterprises, the NeoSapphire 3602 increases
employee productivity, shortens application processing time, and
reduces total cost of ownership (TCO).
“The SPC rankings are an
important reference point for our industry and
various enterprises, as they provide an independent measure of quality
that buyers can trust,” said AccelStor Vice President, Dr.
Weafon Tsao.
“We at AccelStor are
proud to have our product ranked amongst the very
best in the world for the SPC-1 benchmark. This SPC-1 Result is a
strong validation of our commitment to providing quality products and
powerful product performance.”
Proven
Storage Performance
The NeoSapphire 3602 delivered 227,970.31 SPC-1 IOPS™: excellent
performance for any mission-critical application. It also achieved the
outstanding SPC-1 Price-Performance of $0.20/SPC-1 IOPS™, ranking the
product #3 in the SPC-1 “Top Ten” of Price-Performance. The results
prove that NeoSapphire 3602 is a great solution for database and VDI
applications in budget-conscious SMBs. The SPC-1 benchmark measures the
performance of a storage subsystem in business critical applications
that rely heavily on random I/O queries and updates. Applications
include online transaction processing (OLTP), database operations, and
mail servers. The SPC-1 benchmark results can be seen at: https://goo.gl/mvahpp
Suitable
for Demanding Storage Applications
The NeoSapphire 3602's superior read and write performance helps
resolve storage bottlenecks, while the low latency and high reliability
of the Fibre Channel interface makes this new array ideal for
demanding, time-sensitive applications including banking and finance.
Hot-swappable drives and dual redundant power supplies make the arrays
even more reliable. A dual-port 16G Fibre Channel – backwards
compatible with 8G – makes this array easy to integrate into existing
SANs. The array has space for ten hot-swappable drives.
Response time/throughput data from the SPC-1 benchmark tests show that
the NeoSapphire 3602's write response time was 0.46ms, even when the
array handles the benchmark’s maximum throughput/IOPS at the 100% load
point. This responsive performance demonstrates the NeoSapphire 3602's
suitability for transaction time-sensitive applications, such as
databases and virtualization.
Sustained
Performance and Reliability
AccelStor emphasizes redundancy and seamless uptime, employing multiple
data paths as well as redundant and hot-swappable components for data
protection. The NeoSapphire 3602's enterprise SSDs boost reliability,
availability, and scalability. Meanwhile, Fibre Channel multipathing
supports I/O load balancing and failover.
The NeoSapphire 3602 is powered by AccelStor's exclusive FlexiRemap
technology for reliability and sustained performance even in
random-access scenarios demanded by enterprise applications. FlexiRemap
minimizes overhead and extends SSD lifespan by greatly reducing the
number of write/erase operations. To avoid unnecessary operations which
could shorten drive lifespan, FlexiRemap technology remaps random data
writes as sequential data writes before passing them to the underlying
flash memory. The global wear-leveling algorithm ensures stability and
longevity. With FlexiRemap, data is protected, drive endurance is
improved, and random-access speed is accelerated.
For product details and specifications, visit the NeoSapphire 3602
product page at https://www.accelstor.com/overview.php?id=20
About
AccelStor
AccelStor
is accelerating the paradigm shift from conventional disk arrays to
modern all-flash storage. AccelStor's NeoSapphire series all-flash
arrays, powered by FlexiRemap software technology, deliver sustained
high IOPS to business-critical applications. With standard rack-mount
form factors, streamlined storage management, multi-protocol support,
as well as front-accessible and hot-swappable drives, NeoSapphire
promises to resolve the performance bottlenecks for I/O-intensive
applications like virtualization, high-performance computing, database,
and media-processing applications. For more information about AccelStor
and NeoSapphire, please visit www.accelstor.com.
* AccelStor, FlexiRemap, and NeoSapphire are trademarks or
registered trademarks of AccelStor, Inc. in the United States of
America and/or other countries.
About
the SPC
The Storage Performance Council (SPC) is a vendor-neutral standards
body focused on the storage industry. The SPC has created the first
industry-standard performance benchmark targeted at the needs and
concerns of the storage industry. From component-level evaluation to
the measurement of complete distributed storage systems, SPC benchmarks
will provide a rigorous, audited, and reliable measure of performance.
For more details about the SPC and the SPC-1 benchmark, please visit www.storageperformance.org.
[1] The SPC-1 Executive Summary and Full Disclosure Report
for the NeoSapphire 3602 are available at: http://www.storageperformance.org/results/benchmark_results_spc1_active/#a00183