PRODUCT : SFA10000

Overview

DDN SFA10000 is built for the following applications:

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and Supercomputing.
HD Video, Broadcast and Post-Production.
Render Farms, Modelling and Simulation.
Data Acquisition and Warehousing.
Cloud Computing.

SFA10000 - Quick Facts

Provides Massively Multi-Threaded Storage Processing for today's multi-core, multi-application world and Balanced Storage Performance for both highly transactional and high-bandwidth applications.

Largest scalable storage building block - up to Twenty (20) 60-drive 4U storage enclosures per system supporting 2.4PB in only two rack (84U).

Reduces energy consumption by over 50% by eliminating unnecessary storage enclosures, fans and power supplies, while providing complete redundancy, high availability and performance.

Enclosure-based intermixing of high-performance SSD, SAS and high-capacity SATA drives enables efficient tiered storage.

Features 16GB of fast, battery-backed cache accelerating heavy read and write operations.

SATAssure Plus real-time self-healing error detection and correction speeds up SATA drive rebuilds and protects against silent data corruption.

Data-aware storage engine is designed to intelligently parallelise large data sets for superior performance bandwidth.

Features high-performance DirectRAID 6 and D-MAID variable power down technology.

Single systems manage up to 1,200 drives in just two racks. Clustered systems scale to dozens of petabytes.

Flexible and open to integrate with the best available parallel and clustered file systems.

SFA10000

Extreme IOPS and Extreme Bandwidth.

The DataDirect Networks' Storage Fusion Architecture (SFA) fuses the best parts of today's advanced processor technology, busses and memory architecture with an optimised RAID engine and data management algorithms. These are tightly integrated to derive peak performance out of a massive IO infrastructure and multi-media disk drives to maximise system performance and lower storage investment costs. The fusion of unprecedented levels of bandwidth and IOPS enable this system to serve as the storage foundation for any Extreme Storage application set.

The SFA10000 provides superior performance for both highly transactional and high-bandwidth applications, delivering bandwidth of up to 10GB/s for both Reads and Writes, as well as up to 1,000,000 random IOPS to cache and 300,000 random IOPS to disk. With over 48GB/s of internal system bandwidth, the SFA10000 can perform multiple levels of parity generation, drive correction and data integrity verification without detracting from an application's performance.

Designed for multiple classes of data and storage performance requirements, the SFA10000 multi-RAID architecture combines up to 1,200 SATA, SAS and SSD disks into a simply managed, multi-petabyte architecture. Data resides on the optimal disk technology according to priority and access pattern, while leveraging a choice of RAID levels for maximum performance and cost-effectiveness.

SFA10000 Performance

Up to 10GB/sec Read and Write host throughput per system.

Up to 1,000,000 random IOPS (cache).

Up to 300,000 random IOPS (disk).

16 x 8Gb FC or 8 x 40Gb Infiniband host ports.