3D NAND debuts in storage arrays

Kaminario aims to bring all-flash storage prices to less than $1/GB.

It looks like flash storage company Kaminario will be the first all-flash array or AFA vendor to go out on a limb with 3D NAND. This is via the K2 version 5.5 all-flash primary storage array.

CEO Dani Golan told EE Times in a telephone interview the product introduces deployment of 3D TLC drives, while aiming to bring all-flash storage prices to less than $1/GB. This is half the quote for its previous array released in May 2014.

By supporting 3D TLC solid state drives, K2 customers will be able to double the effective capacity of the array to more than 360TB per K-block and scale one K2 array to multiple petabytes in a single rack unit.

Kaminario will continue to provide its seven-year warranty on all drives, including 3D TLC SSDs. The longevity is made possible by features such as inline compression and deduplication, load-balanced writes, RAID optimizations and a flash-friendly data layout technology for large blocks. The new product also features native array-based asynchronous replication.

Dolan said customers are at the point where they are comfortable with flash in the storage arrays, and are more interested in how an AFA meets their needs than the technical specifications or what kind of NAND. "What they care about is performance."

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