Faster is better

With a few exceptions, the first revelation in any review of data storage requirements is how little of it is being accessed at any given moment. Most data spends it’s life just sitting around, waiting to be analyzed or summarized or referenced.

Conversely, some small amount of data inside mail servers, databases, and index tables is changing constantly. For these applications, Solid State Disks or SSDs, can dramatically improve performance, and reduce overall system costs.

Spindle based drives are mechanical devices limited by physical laws governing elevation, rotation, and positioning; to name a few. Historically, this has been addressed by adding spindles and cache.

SSDs are solid state and consequently, much faster for the types of random I/O performed inside high transactions applications. Deployed on a SAN, SSDs provide the fastest possible non-volatile shared storage with more throughput to less servers.

Any discussion of a SAN infrastructure should consider the benefit of SSDs.

Click here for more information on a typical SolidData SSD, their Model 3000.

Key benefits for SolidData

• Dramatic cost reductions possible by eliminating server bottlenecks
• User satisfaction
• Faster, non-intrusive, backups
• Faster restoration for critical data