LSI Launches WarpDrive SLP-300 PCIe SSD Card – 240,000 Sustained 4K IOPS
Today LSI launched in the channel a PCI Express Solid-State Storage card for application acceleration. The LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 offers performance up to 240,000 sustained IOPS and 300GB of SLC solid-state storage capacity within a low profile form factor, helping customers reduce energy costs and eliminate racks of storage by delivering the I/O performance of hundreds of hard disk drives while consuming less than 25 watts of power. Don’t expect to pick one up for your personal PC though as LSI has set the MSRP of theWarpDrive SLP-300 at $11,500.
CPU burden independent of main memory size. It offers system builders, system integrators and their end customers a cost-effective, plug-and-play solution for maximizing the transactional I/O performance of applications such as Web serving, data warehousing, data mining, professional video and high-performance computing. A WarpDrive card can sustain up to 1,400MB/s of throughput, with reliable and consistent performance across both sequential and random reads and writes. It delivers up to 240,000 4K read IOPS and up to 200,000 4K write IOPS, with access latency of less than 50 microseconds. To achieve equal performance on a write IOPS basis utilizing hard disk drives would require over 400 drives, 36U of rack space and consume more than 300 times the power.
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