- IBM Flashsystem C200 aims to replace hard drives with high -capacity flash storage
- It offers a gross capacity of 1.1 pb, efficient 2.3pb, with 200,000 IOP performance
- This flash option is optimized for archives, backups and sequential workloads
Pure storage has been providing for the end of rotation discs for a certain time, and now IBM is looking to accelerate this change with the launch of the C200 system, a high -capacity flash storage system designed to replace traditional hard drives in companies while offering high density, endurance and lower operational costs.
IBM positions C200 as a flash alternative at a lower cost (“Use it as TLC, pay it like QLC”, boasts IBM) for archive storage, backup standards and workloads that can tolerate higher latency.
The system fits into the IBM storage virtualization, which allows it to reach a flashsystem grid for non -disturbing migrations.
The writing is on the wall
Blocks & Files says: “The C200 uses flashcore modules owners of IBM (FCMS) with a Gen 4 version offering a raw capacity of 46 TB using a pseudo-SLC front in QLC NAND. He has 32 Xeon cores and a 256 GB cache offering a latency of 1 to 2 ms, up to 200,000 iops and 23 Gbit / s. There is a fixed configuration of 24 slot with a gross capacity of 1.1 pb in a 2RU chassis. Because the system has a equipment assisted by equipment still on, IBM says that it has 2.3% effective capacity. »»
In addition to the flashsystem grid scale and a complete follow-up of business software functions, the C200 has eight integrated 10GBe ports and optional configurations of 16x 32 GB FC / NVME-FC ports or 8x 25 / 10GBE NVME-TCP. IBM says that it offers 10 times better performance than traditional hard drive or hybrid solutions, which makes it optimized for sequential workloads.
“The writing is really on the wall for the last of the rust that turns …” writes blogger IBM Barry Whyte. “In the coming years, we will see the price of the flash get closer and closer, and finally reduce even less than NL-SAS. With 300, 500 and even 1PB the flash disks that are used in the industry, it is almost impossible for the most advanced, even the most advanced magnetic plateau technologies.”
Flashsystem C200 has an indicative price of the end user of $ 381,000, which Blocks and files Calls “respectable” and it will generally be available worldwide on March 21.
