At Storage Networking World Fall, Fusion-io, a leading provider of
enterprise solid-state storage technology and high-performance I/O
solutions, announced the results of an independent lab test which
confirm the high-performance claims the company has made of its first
product, the ioDrive.
Finisar’s Medusa Labs, the network and storage
test systems provider, independently performed benchmark tests
confirming Fusion-io’s initial performance
claims regarding the ioDrive, a high performance Solid-State Drive (SSD)
on a single PCI-Express (PCIe) card. In addition to proving the
performance numbers stated by Fusion-io, Medusa Labs was also able to
independently confirm performance in excess of initial Fusion-io claims
by thousands of input/output transactions per second (IOPS) using the
Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite.
“We are excited to be working with Fusion-io
and validating the performance of the ioDrive,”
said Nick Kriczky, director of Finisar’s
Medusa Labs. “Through our validation and Test
Tool Suite, we have been able to determine that Fusion-io has met and
exceeded their performance claims for their product.”
By achieving these incredible transaction rates, and exceeding the
performance claims of any other single solid-state drive, Fusion-io
stakes a powerful claim as the world’s
fastest SSD, putting it in league with proprietary solid state storage
appliances and multi-rack SANs that use highly-tuned disk drives to
achieve this type of sustained performance.
“In addition to validating our initial
assertions about the performance we can achieve from a single ioDrive,
these tests also confirm that we have exceeded these claims,”
said David Flynn, CTO of Fusion-io. “With one
ioDrive – unlike appliance vendors who claim
their external rack-mounted box is a drive –
we topped 100,000 IOPS read and 90,000 IOPS write speeds. When you RAID
multiple ioDrives together, you can scale beyond anything else available
today, as demonstrated through Project Quicksilver, which used our
ioDrives to easily achieve over 1,000,000 IOPS.”
The tests confirmed Fusion-io’s assertion
that the SSD performs on the order of 700-Megabytes per second (MB/s)
read and 600-MB/s write, IOPS on the order of 100,000 4-Kilobyte (kB)
random reads per second and 120,000 1-kB random reads per second.
Fusion-io’s claims were greatly exceeded in
further testing, establishing the company as one of the undisputed
market leaders in solid state storage.
Testing Results:
Industry standard Linux benchmark Iozone testing:
Large 64-K packets
730 MB/s random read
630 MB/s random write
4-K packets, random
IOPS in excess of 102,000 reads per second
IOPS in excess of 101,000 writes per second
1-kB packet, random
IOPS in excess of 140,000 reads per second
IOPS in excess of 115,000 writes per second
Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite proprietary testing software:
4-K or smaller packets, sequential
141,000 IOPS for read
110,000 IOPS for write
50/50 mix reads and writes on 4-K or smaller packets, sequential
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah, Fusion-io (www.fusionio.com)
is a leading provider of enterprise solid-state technology and
high-performance I/O solutions that unlock a world of possibilities for
performance-starved applications, closing the gap between processing
power and storage performance.
The increasing demand for a next generation solid state storage
technology is driven by advancements in computer processors which,
following Moore's Law, have grown exponentially in performance.
Mechanical disks, on the other hand, follow Newtonian Dynamics and
experience lackluster performance improvements, introducing a
performance gap. Ushering in a new era of silicon-based storage,
Fusion-io offers several magnitudes of breakthrough performance at a
fraction of the cost of today's traditional disk-based storage systems.
The company’s ioMemory architecture creates a
new tier in the memory hierarchy - one that has 100 times the capacity
density and 10 times the capacity per dollar of DRAM. NAND flash-based
ioMemory makes it possible to have terabytes of near-memory-speed
storage within each node – bringing extremely
large memory problems and I/O bound analysis to a new level of cost
effectiveness.
ABOUT FINISAR-MEDUSA LABS
Finisar Corporation (Nasdaq: FNSR) is a technology leader for fiber optic
subsystems and network performance test systems. Finisar products enable
high-speed communications for networking and storage applications over
Gigabit Ethernet Local Area Networks (LANs), Fibre Channel Storage Area
Networks (SANs), and Metropolitan Area Networks (MANs) using both IP and
SONET/SDH-based protocols.
Since 1988, Finisar has been at the forefront of the optical
communications industry, delivering leading products for the storage and
networking. With over 5,200 employees, Finisar has Sales, Channel, and
Support offices around the world. Medusa labs, located in Austin, TX is
the premiere outsource testing facility for data integrity, stress,
performance and protocol analysis. Finisar’s
Medusa Labs Test Tool Suite is a series of benchmark speed, data
integrity and stress test tools that allow test and validation engineers
to develop quality products in a shorter time frame, for faster time to
market. The suite was designed specifically for engineers that work with
DVT, validation, bring-up, design validation and Quality Assurance.
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