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Superior Data Solutions

Superior Data Solutions manufacturers Tier 0 and Tier 1 Solid State storage solutions for the enterprise. Our FC enclosures incorporate today's best of breed FC or SATA high performance, enterprise grade, flash solid state drives while balancing overall performance with cost. SpeedStor, a direct connect FC or SAN enclosure, incorporates the worlds' fastest flash disk technology. SpeedStor offers access rates comparable to DRAM at a fraction of the cost. FlashStor, a cached SATA to FC flash RAID, balances capacity, performance and cost in order to offer a reasonable alternative to today's HDD subsystems.

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  • editor's comments:- Superior Data Solutions manufactures fully integrated SSD enclosures. They sell to large OEMs (who self brand) as well as direct; under their SpeedStor and FlashStor brands.

    Their 1st enterprise SSD was developed in 2006 in partnership with Gnutek.

    More recently Sun Microsystems has oemed SDS's SpeedStor - a 1U rackmount flash SSD which includes best of breed COTS fibre-channel SSDs.

    An important thing to bear in mind about the SpeedStor is it doesn't have any internal RAID protection. That's why the box looks superficially faster than some other flash SSD rackmounts (which do have internal RAID) - for example from EasyCo.

    For serious online server apps you may need to deploy multiple SpeedStors and wrap data protection around the boxes - which could impact overall cost, performance and complexity.

    ...Later:- November 24, 2008 - Linda LaPorta at Superior Data Solutions confirmed my guesses above - and said more about how customers use this product.

    "The SpeedStor is designed to target high IOP environments with concurrent access to the same files (the more the better). In regards to RAID-Like protection; we purposefully designed SpeedStor to have direct connections to the FC HBA in order to ensure no additional latency. Furthermore, 2 or 3 drives will saturate most controllers. Again, this is to take full advantage of the drive's capability."

    "For those whom require HA, we recommend host based mirroring, as the CPU overhead is negligible (remember, we are not placing entire databases on here). For instance, Sun places the metadata of SAMQFS onto the SpeedStor, and mirrors with disksuite. Overhead was not worth noting (.0003%). We do have customers who have designed very large high IOPs SSD systems with multiple drives, each on their own FC port, striped in a RAID 5 configuration with QFS as well as ZFS. "

profile updated by vendor November 21, 2008

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