Pixel IT - ioDrive Duo - Breaking All Storage Performance Barriers

Breaking All Storage Performance Barriers

The ioDrive Duo doubles the slot capacity of Fusion-io’s successful PCI Express-based ioDrive storage solution. The ioDrive Duo is the market’s fastest and most innovative server-based solid-state storage solution.

With the ioDrive Duo, it is now possible for application, database and system administrators to get previously unheard-of levels of performance, protection and capacity utilization from a single server. Performance for multiple ioDrive Duos scales linearly, allowing any enterprise to scale performance to six gigabytes per-second (Gbytes/sec) of read bandwidth and over 500,000 read IOPS by using just four ioDrive Duos.

> Sustain over a GB/sec of bandwidth
> Easily RAID multiple ioDrive Duo’s
> OS support for Windows, Linux & Solaris

Bottlenecks in application performance and real-time data access are challenges faced by all organisations to varying degrees and the importance of real-time access also varies depending on the nature of your business. The ioDrive Duo which is the next step up from the ioDrive provides double the performance (200,000 IOPS) and double the capacity (up to 1.2TB) of the ioDrive. Complimenting our storage portfolio, the ioDrive Duo is ideal for any organisations and applications looking at getting the highest possible transaction throughput with what is available in today’s market. While SANs are commonplace today - used for large-scale databases of constantly updating information - they have one fundamental flaw: In order to make them fast enough, companies are resorting to buying more disk drives which results in up to 10 times more storage capacity then there is data and unfortunately only utilising maybe a 10th of the capacity. Besides just providing the fastest IO performance you will come across, the ioDrive Duo provides multiple advantages over hard drives. It does not have any moving parts, so it does not require as much power. The ioDrive Duo also doesn't generate as much heat, so the comparative operating costs are far less due to the money not having to be spent on air-conditioning a data centre filled with racks and racks of hard drives. Make the smart, future proof investment in the ioDrive technology today!

Get HIGH performance at LOW costs and ENHANCE business critical systems.

Key Applications

Transaction Processing	Content Caching/Serving	Virtualization	Media Handling
100x faster response time 10x the transactions per second	Host and serve 10x the content per server Terabytes of Virtual Memory with near DRAM speeds	Host 4x more virtual machines Avoid service interrupts due to I/O contention Save or resume virtual machine states in seconds	Serve 10x more streams No more waiting for loads and saves Edit multiple high definition streams in real time

Performance

Based on PCI Express x8 or PCI Express 2.0 x4 standards, which can sustain up to 20 gigabits per-second (Gbytes/sec) of raw throughput, the ioDrive Duo has more than enough bandwidth to obtain industry-leading performance from a single card. The ioDrive Duo can easily sustain 1.5 Gbytes/sec of read bandwidth and nearly 200,000 read IOPS. Its performance metrics are as follows:

Sustained read bandwidth: 1500 MB/sec (32k packet size)
Sustained write bandwidth: 1400 MB/sec (32k packet size)
Read IOPS: 186,000 (4k packet size)
Write IOPS: 167,000 (4k packet size)
Latency < 50 µsec

Reliability

The ioDrive Duo offers unmatched solid-state protection for data integrity and reliability with triple redundancy for a single storage component.

Multi-bit error detection and correction
Patent-pending Flashback protection, offering chip-level N+1 redundancy and on-board self-healing so that no servicing is required
Optional RAID-1 mirroring between two ioMemory modules on the same ioDrive Duo, offering complete redundancy on a single PCIe card

ioDrive Duo	320GB	640GB
NAND Type	Single Level Cell (SLC)	Multi Level Call (MLC)
Write BW	1.4 GB/s (32k packet size)	1.0 GB/s (32k packet size)
Read BW	1.5 GB/s (32k packet size)	1.4 GB/s (32k packet size)
IOPS*	185,022 reads (4k packet size) 167,784 writes (4k packet size)	126,601 reads (4k packet size) 180,530 writes (4k packet size)

Access Latency	50 µs Read	80 µs Read
Bus Interface	PCI-Express x8 and PCI Express 2.0 x 4	PCI-Express x8 and PCI Express 2.0 x 4
Form Factor	Low profile PCI-e card	Low profile PCI-e card
Weight	Less than 10 ounces	Less than 10 ounces
Operating Systems	Microsoft Windows, Open Solaris 10 & Solaris 10*, RHEL 4 & 5; SLES 9 & 10	Microsoft Windows, Open Solaris 10 & Solaris 10*, RHEL 4 & 5; SLES 9 & 10

Wear Leveling (@ 5TB write-erase/day)	48 years	16 years

* Performance achieved using multiprocessor enterprise server
** 64-Bit Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 & 2008
*** Solaris support available in Q2 of 2009