AMCC 3ware Confirms Plans to Support Flash SSD RAID Market

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AMCC 3ware Confirms Plans to Support Flash SSD RAID Market

 

 

Editor:- May 21, 2008 - traditionally what stirs up a hornet's nest in the RAID controller HBA market is the introduction of new interfaces.

I've chronicled the emergence of RAID controllers using incrementally faster versions of parallel SCSI, then fibre-channel (from the 100Mbps days), SATA and SAS for the past 16 years.

These technology changes (and the follow-on 2x, 4x, 8x speedups) always provide a window of opportunity to oems who want to be #1 in the new standard.

In the next few years a new market will open up for RAID controller HBAs aimed at the SSD market.

An ideal RAID adapter for a rackmount SSD needs different characteristics than a hard disk array.

 

     

  • better latency - the access time in the RAID becomes a critical competitive factor for the overall SSD array performence.

 

     

  • smaller RAM cache (and different sorting algorithms).
I predict that in the next 5 years the SSD RAID adapter market will become as important a new market segment (for RAID technology oems) as the appearance of a new interface standard like SATA was - in the past decade.

...Later:- I contacted leading RAID controller oems to ask the question...

"Have you got plans to launch RAID controllers aimed at the specific needs of flash SSD arrays?"

Scott Cleland, Director of Marketing for AMCC Storage 3ware gave this illuminating reply.

""Yes. AMCC is committed to offering RAID solutions that address the needs of the markets it serves, and SSD drives will have a significant role in data centers in the coming years. Storage Class memory (SCM), of which NAND Flash is an early example, is an exciting and rapidly evolving technology. SSD drives based on future SCM technology will continue to drive the optimization of performance, power and price that is so critical to the enterprise.

"The 3ware team is currently in discussions with the largest providers of SSD devices and will offer support in the near future.
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