The document presents 12 facts about flash storage and its advantages over disk storage. Flash storage capacity is projected to grow to be 1000x more than disk storage by 2026. Flash storage is also more reliable than disk storage and flash memory costs have been decreasing rapidly. Flash storage density has been increasing 2-4x every 2 years, resulting in widespread adoption.

1. One Dozen Amazing Facts
About Flash Storage
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3. (Enterprise Flash vs. HDD Projections 2012-2026, Aug 2015)
Flash capacity shipped is projected to grow
to be about 1,000 more than disk in 2026.
#1 Flash is Outpacing
Disk Storage

4. (Solid State Drives Separating Myths from Facts, www.toshiba.com)
Flash was found to be more reliable based
on published Mean Time To Failure (MTTF)
rates of 1,000,000 hours vs. Disk in PC
applications with MTTF of approximately
600,000 hours.
#2 Flash is More Reliable for
PC Applications

5. (At Coca-Cola Bottling, flash memory energizes big data efforts. June 2014. www.fortune.com)
Flash memory was priced on the order of
$35 per gigabyte a few years ago; today,
enterprise flash is priced per gigabyte in the
$6 to $10 range.
#3 Flash Memory Costs are
Decreasing Rapidly

6. Resulting in decreased costs and widespread
deployment in diverse arenas as embedded
systems and high-performance computing.
#4 NAND Flash Density is
Increasing 2–4x Every 2yrs
(NANDFlashSim: Intrinsic Latency Variation Aware NAND Flash Memory System Modeling and Simulation at Microarchitecture Level)

7. Using NetApp FAS6000 in the computer
farm for Nvidia (a global tech company).
#5 Flash Doubled the Jobs
Run Daily From 2M to 4.5M
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

8. Using NetApp FAS6000 in the computer
farm for Nvidia (a global tech company).
#6 Flash Doubled Data Growth
Without Increasing Storage
Footprint or Headcount
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

9. Using All Flash FAS and FAS storage
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany’s
national meteorological service, relies on
NetApp to quickly deliver critical weather
data to first responders.
#7 Flash Reduced Latency to
Less Than a Millisecond
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

10. Across 21 Sites throughout Germany using
All Flash FAS and FAS storage Deutscher
Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany’s national
meteorological service, relies on NetApp to
quickly deliver critical weather data to first
responders.
#8 Streamlined Management
for 8PB+ of Data and 164
Storage Systems
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

11. Using All Flash FAS and FAS storage
Deutscher Wetterdienst (DWD), Germany’s
national meteorological service, relies on
NetApp to quickly deliver critical weather
data to first responders.
#9 Flash Storage Can Go 14
Years with Zero Downtime
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

12. Using NetApp EF-Series, RP Data, the
largest real estate property information
provider in Australia and New Zealand,
experienced data transfer rates in excess of
1.2M records per second (processing 10GB of
data takes less than a minute).
#10 Reduced Database Transfer
Times by Over 70%
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

13. Using NetApp EF-Series, RP Data, the
largest real estate property information
provider in Australia and New Zealand.
#11 Enabled 99.9999%
System Availability
at the Storage Layer
(NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)

14. (NetApp Better Business in a Flash. Jan 2015. slideshare.com/NetApp)
Using NetApp EF-Series, RP Data, the
largest real estate property information
provider in Australia and New Zealand.
#12 Achieved 100,000 IOPS
in Real-World Use Cases

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