1. tachIOn
C
Virident
tachIOn™
Drive
SmartScaling™
Storage
in
Datacenter:
Best-‐of-‐breed
performance,
enterprise-‐grade
reliability,
and
large
capacity
in
a
compact,
low
profile
form
factor
Virident’s
tachIOn
drive
is
a
revolutionary
solid-‐state
storage
product
that
utilizes
the
industry-‐standard
PCI
Express
interface
and
innovative
hardware-‐
software
architecture
for
high
performance
and
sustained
random
IOPS.
tachIOn
delivers
best-‐in-‐class
performance
and
enterprise
reliability,
low
power
together
with
plug-‐and-‐play
ease-‐of-‐use
for
performance
starved,
data-‐
intensive
workloads
such
as
databases,
business
analytics,
simulation,
visualization
and
high-‐performance
computing.
Sustained
Performance:
tachIOn,
part
of
Virident's
GreenCloud
storage
product
line,
delivers
sustained
and
predictable
performance
at
low
latencies
over
the
lifetime
of
the
product
and
at
the
highest
usable
capacities.
An
example
of
this
high
performance
is
200,000
4KB
read/write
IOPS
in
75:25
read/write
workloads.
In
addition,
tachIOn
offers
unparalleled
performance
supporting
large
IO
queue
depths
allowing
high-‐performance
applications
to
tachIOn
Features:
effectively
exploit
multicore
CPUs
to
the
fullest.
tachIOn’s
software
eliminates
• Sustained,
predictable
performance
issues
typically
seen
in
concurrent
read
while
write
scenarios,
random
IOPS
–
Best
in
the
leading
to
consistent
and
predictable
performance
at
the
application
level,
Industry;
100x
faster
than
across
real-‐world
workloads.
Enterprise
HDDs
Enterprise-‐grade
Reliability
and
Lifetimes:
Combined
with
Virident's
unique
• Enterprise-‐grade
reliability
–
management
software
layer,
tachIOn
is
a
true
enterprise-‐class
solution
advanced
ECC;
dynamic,
delivering
high-‐performance
random
IOPs
under
varying
loads
(and
read/write
global
wear
leveling
mixes),
coupled
with
enterprise-‐grade
reliability
and
endurance.
The
• Field
serviceability
–
management
software
employs
global
and
dynamic
wear
leveling,
optimizing
replaceable
Flash
Modules
Flash
memory
usage
across
the
entire
card
and
delivering
the
best
lifetimes
in
the
industry
–
24
years,
at
5TB
writes
per
day
–even
under
aggressive
• Industry
leading
lifetimes
–
24
workloads.
It
applies
advanced
error
correction
to
significantly
enhance
years
at
5TB
writes/day;
reliability
of
the
underlying
hardware,
minimizing
errors
uncorrectable
bit
errors
extend
investment
with
to
less
than
one
in
10-‐17
bits.
Furthermore,
tachIOn
does
all
the
above
while
replaceable
modules
offering
applications
the
highest
usable
capacity
per
drive.
• HDD-‐like
capacities
–
200GB
–
Field
Serviceability:
tachIOn’s
design
uses
Flash
modules,
which
enhance
ROI
400GB;
upgrade
option
with
the
ability
to
replace
modules
onsite
in
the
customer’s
environment.
In
• Custom
design-‐in
addition
to
further
prolonging
lifetime
of
a
drive,
it
offers
the
unique
ability
for
opportunities
for
OEMs
users
to
upgrade
the
storage
capability
without
the
need
to
replace
the
entire
card.
Together
with
its
enhanced
reliability
and
lifetime
capabilities,
tachIOn
Applications:
raises
the
bar
for
enterprise
reliability,
availability
and
serviceability
(RAS).
• High
Performance
Computing
Easy
to
Deploy:
tachIOn
has
been
designed
with
the
needs
of
the
datacenter
in
• Data
analytics
mind.
The
Virident
tachIOn
Drive
is
available
in
capacities
from
200GB
up
to
• Web
2.0
400GB
storage
per
low-‐profile
PCIe
card.
The
drive
can
be
installed
and
ready
to
• Transaction
processing
use
in
industry
standard
x86-‐based
servers
(Intel
and
AMD)
in
a
matter
of
minutes.
