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1. Madrid SSD Enterprise conference
Gaetano Pastore
Manager, Sales CE-Russia-Turkey
28 June 2011

2. Agenda
 STEC introduction
 STEC EMEA support team
 Why SSD in Storage
• SSD are not all equal
• Nexenta implementation
 Next to come
• Channel program
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3. STEC History and Expertise
The Company The Technology The Products
 Building SSDs since 1994  In-House Controller  Industry’s broadest
Development portfolio of SSDs
 Focused on Enterprise,
Defense and Government  Deep Interface Expertise  Highly integrated system
customers architecture
 SSD Firmware and Logic
 Extensive FC, SAS, SATA Design  Continued innovation
interface skill & through technology
experience  A significant IP portfolio integration
with patents in key SSD
technologies  Proven performance,
 Flash management reliability and endurance
 Controller Technology
 Power backup
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4. Enterprise Leaders Rely on STEC SSDs
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5. Continuing Leadership Initiatives
• Continued investment in SSD technology
• Research & Development
• Quality & Reliability
• Growing Engineering resource USA and Penang
• Expanding Manufacturing in Penang
• Strengthened STEC controller technology
• Introduced Secure Array of Flash Elements™ (S.A.F.E.) Technology
• Introduced CellCare™ Technology to bring MLC-based SSDs to enterprise
• Continuous development of flash channel technologies
• Active evaluation of key industry groups
• eNVMHCI working group
• SFF working group
• JEDEC
• SNIA
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6. Building on our Customers’ Success
Markets Customers Innovation
 #1 Volume and revenue  Largest list of top-tier  First to market with
supplier in enterprise global OEMs fully enterprise SSDs
SSDs qualified
 First to market with
 Leading supplier of  Over 20 years experience 3Gb and 6GB SAS
military and industrial- serving requirements of
grade memory products OEM customers  Leading in time-to-market
with industrial SlimSATA
 >82% CAGR in enterprise  Design and FAE support and CFAST
SSDS through 2014 centers worldwide
 Leading in SSD controller
integration with
CellCare™ Technology
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7. Most Comprehensive Solid-State Line-up
Performance ZeusRAM
Computing
SAS 6Gb
High
performance ZeusIOPS
Enterprise
Server/Storage
6Gb SAS
Mainstream Enterprise ZeusIOPS
Storage Fibre Channel
Value Enterprise Server/Storage MACH16
Enterprise-Class SATA
CF, Cfast, SlimSATA,
Embedded, Military and Aerospace
for embedded applications
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8. Shipping
ZeusIOPS Gen3 Enterprise SSD’s Now
 True enterprise-class solid state drive
• SAS and Fibre Channel Interfaces
Warranty 2.5” 3.5”
SLC Media 5 years 100, 200 GB 100, 200, 400 GB
MLC Media 3 years 300 GB 300, 800 GB
• Variable sector size:
512, 520, 524 and 528 Bytes
• Performance SLC IOPS MLC IOPS
• 4K Random 70/30 Q16 30,000 10,000
• 4K Random R/W, Q16 45K/16K 45K/5K
• 512b Random Read Q16 75,000 70,000
• 256K Sequential Read/Write 380/225 MB/s 350/100 MB/s
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9. MACH16 Enterprise Class SATA SSD
 2.5” & 1.8” hard drive form factors
 Full data path protection
• Capacities & Form Factors
Warranty 1.8” 2.5”
SLC 5Yr 50, 100, 200
MACH16 Unlimited Write 50, 100 GB
GB
/day
MLC 3Yr 100, 200,400
MACH16 10X capacity Write
GB
200, 400 GB
/day
i-temp version available, details & capacities available on request
SLC Media MLC Media
• 4K Random 70/30 Q16 12,000 IOPS 11,000 IOPS
• 4K Random Read Q16 20,000 IOPS 16,000 IOPS
• 4K Random Write Q16 5,000 IOPS 2,500 IOPS
• 128K Sequential Rd 240 MB/s 240 MB/s
• 128K Sequential Wr 180 MB/s 100 MB/s
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10. ZeusRAM
 High IOPS drive for Performance Computing
• 6Gb Dual Port SAS Interface
3.5”
DDR3 SSD 8GB
• 512 Byte Sector size
• Hot Pluggable SAS interface
• Fully backed up DRAM to FLASH Shipping Now
• Built in power backup protection Designed specifically as a
• Dual Port Performance Aggregation “WEAR RESISTANT” SSD
• Low latency, high throughput
• Performance 6Gb-SAS • File system metadata, log store
• Latency <23us • Tier0+ Storage for fast write commit
• Random Read / Write (4K) 69K/51K IOPs
• Random Read / Write (4K) 100K/100K IOPs (Dual Port)
• Sequential Read / Write 475/430 MB/s
• Sequential Read / Write 900/800 MB/s (Dual Port)
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11. STEC EMEA
Giorgio
FAE EMEA
Daniel
North Europe;
Bridget Phoon
East Europe
AE EMEA
Israel; Africa.
Gaetano
Central Europe,
Russia, Turkey
Davide
South Europe:
Italy, France,
Spain, Portugal
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12. Winning storage solution has to bring ...
 Improved value proposition
 Support large number of users
 At better service levels
 While reducing operating costs
 This can only be achieved by co-optimization of hardware
and software for ideal performance
Workload optimized storage solution
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13. Bridging the storage performance gap
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14. SSD in the Storage Landscape…
Pros: Fast access time (100ns-10us)
Wear-resistant storage
DRAMs during heavy write workloads
Cons: Non-persistent memory (data loss)
Higher Performance & lower latency
Pros: Fast access time (100ns-20us)
Wear-resistant storage
RAM SSDs during heavy write workloads
Lower Cost Per GB
Persistent media
Pros: Fast access time 100us – 200us
SSDs Persistent media
High capacity primary storage
Pros: Highest capacity primary storage
HDDs Cons: Slow access time (10ms range)
Low performance
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15. It is important to use the right SSD…
Consumer Enterprise
- Mobile and Laptop • Storage, SAN, Server
- Low duty cycles • 24x7x365 duty cycles
- Infrequent write activity • Performance & Reliability
- Minimal data protection • Endurance and longevity
A great SSD drive in a Does not make a
mobile application good Enterprise SSD
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16. STEC Enterprise SSDs Key Features
It’s all in the Controller
SAS
 Performance
• Consistent steady state performance SSD Controller
Host Interface
 Reliability S.A.F.E.
Write Amplification
Reduction
Data Path Protection
(Secure Array of Flash
Elements)
Error
• Advanced Flash Management CellCare™
Detection
Correction
Technology
• Data path Protection Wear
Leveling
• S.A.F.E. TM for Reliability
• Power backup Protection
 Endurance using CellCareTM
• For eMLC/MLC SSDs
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17. Flash aware file system (ZFS) + SSD = Best bang for
buck
Storage Head
• ZilCache – Non volatile write ZFS Optimized Read Cache
(L2ARC)
cache STEC ZeusIOPs/MACH16
• Improves synchronous writes
• Small capacity (8GB)
• Extremely write intensive
• Use ZeusRAM
• L2ARC – Read cache
• Speeds up read operations
• ~5% of total storage capacity
• Use ZeusIOPs MLC/SLC SSDs
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- Storage Head (2U enterprise Server) second
- 22x HDDs
- STEC ZeusRAM + ZeusIOPs
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19. Enterprise SSD System Savings Summary
52%
HDD Only SSD & HDD
Hardware Pwr & Cool
15K HDDs 1TB SATA
Zeus SSD ZeusRAM SSD
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20. Key Takeaways
• Important to pick the right SSD based on target application
• Beware of using consumer SSDs in Enterprise applications
• Consider the needs of the application
• Tiered storage provide the best TCO
• Best bang for buck from each storage tier
• STEC’s has the widest range of SSDs
• ZeusRAM SSDs for ZilCache
• ZeusIOPs SLC and MLC SSDs for L2ARC
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