HGST Launches PCIe SSDs for Performance-Intensive Apps

HGST, a Western Digital company announced the launch of its new FlashMAX III family of PCIe accelerators with improvement in price/performance for the most demanding database and cloud workloads. Also introduced is the new HGST ServerCache software that allows IT administrators to inject acceleration into their existing storage infrastructure by quickly and easily deploying a hybrid flash environment with any SSD.   

“For businesses to remain competitive, application performance matters. Data needs to be instantly accessible for real-time processing, analytics and insights,” said Ulrich Hansen, vice president of SSD product marketing, HGST. “

HGST’s new FlashMAX III PCIe SSD and ServerCache software are suited for performance-intensive applications including databases, SQL servers, data warehouses, big data deployment and video post-production applications, says HGST.

Key benefits of FlashMAX III PCIe accelerators

• Better application performance – Built for extreme application performance, FlashMAX III delivers up to 540,000 Random Read IOPS (4K) and up to 200,000 Mixed Sustained Random IOPS (70:30 R:W) from a single half-height, half-length PCIe SSD.
• Improvements in price/performance – With up to double the price/performance, FlashMAX III offers new levels of value over its prior generation.
• Support for the latest generation of servers – FlashMAX III supports PCI Express 3.0, the latest version of the PCI Express interconnect supported by today’s newest server platforms.

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