SanDisk Introduces Its First PCI Express Solid-State Drive for Enterprises

From X-bit Labs: SanDisk Corp. this week introduced Lightning PCI Express solid state accelerator (SSA) cards designed to boost the performance of workstations and servers used in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.

San Disk Lightning SSAs are available as PCI Express 2.0 x4 add-in cards in 200GB and 400GB capacities. These SSAs are designed to accelerate the performance of business-critical applications and can be added to workstations and servers to provide balanced, predictable performance for enterprise applications, delivering a combination of speed, reliability and cost-savings. The cards provide rapid access to the most frequently used data and applications in order to more effectively manage heavy workloads.

The new PCIe cards from SanDisk deliver as low as 50 microsecond sustained read and write latency. Lightning PCIe products offer 245 microsecond average response times and sub-30 millisecond maximum response times reflecting dramatic performance gains in real-world applications running heavy workloads.

The new PCIe products from SanDisk address a wide variety of uses - from financial institutions analyzing and processing massive amounts of information around the clock; to social media and website providers whose customers demand a nearly instant response with every click of a mouse; to media content creators editing high-definition videos.

"SanDisk PCIe SSAs deliver balanced performance, speeding access to critical data in a simple and cost-effective way. Enterprise businesses can now leverage a PCIe acceleration solution that combines SanDisk's leading NAND flash memory technology and its innovative controller design to offer the enterprise-grade reliability and scalability that our customers depend on," said Greg Goelz, vice president and general manager of enterprise storage solutions at SanDisk.

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