IBM begins to check a capacity to amount to hard disk of 4TB solid state

September 2, 2008

Time of Beijing of dispatch of sina science and technology on August 29 message, according to foreign media coverage, IBM Zhou Si discloses, this company is as high as the group of hard disk of high speed solid state of 4TB(1T=1000GB) byte in test capacity, product of this solid state hard disk that faces a company makes clear, after afterwards Intel, IBM already was approbated shine put a technology.

Come for years, shine deposit check — namely the solid state hard disk that generation faces masses market — wait for little scope to use in digital camera and musical player only, but now, no matter be storage capacity, speed or usability, solid state hard disk already had made the preparation that marchs to public marketplace. Actually, solid state hard disk already infiltration from confuse you to get online to store to huge company originally the domain of of all kinds product of array.

Of IBM cut a dot to choose high-powered company memory, this company discloses, its are new 250% of the world before the function of the product of solid state hard disk of development already exceeded order’s fastest disk memory performance.

In this research plan that the name is Quicksilver, IBM combined technology of solid state memory and fictitious storage technology, the abidance that realized more than 1 1 million every seconds in the array of solid state hard disk of 4.1TB thereby inputs output speed (IOPS) , and answer time to be less than 1 millisecond. Fusion IO supplied the solid state hard disk that the test uses.

Before this, intel used 120 to be read randomly take speed to be 35000IOPS, the hard disk of X25-E Extreme solid state that writes speed to be 3300IOPS randomly comprised the memory array of 3.8TB, of whole array read write speed to be 4.2 million IOPS. To data processing of such as credit card or the big client that are backup system and so on character, IOPS is a decisive index.

Chief inspector of sale of product of IBM system memory checks Li Andrew (Charlie Andrews) expresses, “We are completely OK commercialize its inside a year, system of a high speed has built now, but the facet is become in long-term reliability and systematic application collect, we do a few works even. We want to concentrate energy on integral solution, and do not be eager to rolling out hardware. And do not be eager to rolling out hardware..

Actually, store with disk industry record photograph of the system is compared, the function of Quicksilver should be not recorded more than 250% , but its answer time to have original record only 20 1/0, and specific power consumption and drop in temperature demand has 55% original only.

IBM says, “The function promotion of this kind of degree will be right the influence with commercial application far-reaching generation, below same working intensity and working hours, finished workload will be original two to 3 times. Finished workload will be original two to 3 times..

The IBM BladeCenter server that IBM rolled out in June last year is the product that its use solid state hard disk the first times. (Xie Xi)

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