Start-up Claims SSD Achieves 180,000 IOPS

Lucas123 writes "Three-year-old start-up Pliant Technology today announced the general availability of a new class of enterprise SAS solid state disk drives that it claims without using any cache can achieve up to 180,000 IOPS for sustained read/write rates of 500MB/sec and 320MB/sec, respectively. The company also claims an unlimited number of daily writes to its new flash drives, guaranteeing 5 years of service with no slowdown. 'Pliant's SSD controller architecture is not vastly different from those of other high-end SSD manufacturers. It has twelve independent I/O channels to interleaved single level cell (SLC) NAND flash chips from Samsung Corp. The drives are configured as RAID 0 for increased performance.'"

Comments

Sometimes sneakernet is still faster

[davidwr]

I can move 2TB over 100M in just over a minute at normal walking pace, and that's if I have a single drive.

If I have a backpack or push-cart loaded with 50+ drives, we are talking tenths of a petabyte per minute per 100M.

If I load up an airplane full of high-density media and send them cross country or halfway around the world, we are now talking VERYBIGNUM bytes per day.

Still, this is way cool, and sneakernet isn't what you need if you want to copy rather than move your data.