ION's SR-71 SpeedServer™ is a full-function, dual-socket server optimized for SSD RAID to deliver the I/O performance of hundreds of disk drives. With (24) Intel® X25-E or Intel® X25-M SSDs, Intel's FastPath™ RAID technology and Intel Xeon® X5670 processors, the SR-71 can deliver over 400,000 IOPS on random reads of up to 8KB And the SR-71 SpeedServer delivers all of that performance in a sleek 2U rackmount system that consumes less than 450W! Compare that with as much as 20,000W to achieve this performance with disks. Where would you use the SR-71 SpeedServer? Any application that demands random IOPS, but we think the most exciting applications have not yet been created yet because it used to take 1000 disks to achieve the performance needed. Read the review from the CRN Test Center on ChannelWeb.

Are SSDs are ready for your enterprise application? YES! SSDs are cool, low-power devices with no moving parts. Mean Time Between Failure is 2 million hours for the X25-E SSD. Drive endurance is 2PB of random writes per SSD for the X25-E 64GB SSD - enough to re-write the entire capacity with small blocks to random locations every hour for five years!) Then ION improves the endurance and performance by increasing the spare area reserved on each SSD. On top of all that, the SR-71 uses SSD RAID to multiply the performance and reliability.  Why would you trust your enterprise to rotating disks?

The key to understanding the potential of the SR-71 is to understand how many hundreds of "short-stroked" 15k RPM Fibre Channel rotating disks a system would need to have dedicated to achieve a comparable number of IOPS. I/O performance under a number of tests is found in the tables below along with estimates on how many rotating disks it would take to achieve a comparable level of performance. Also compare the power estimates for disk alternatives to the SR-71 which operates at less than 500W, cool and quiet. How much are you spending to buy and run all those rotating disks?

TechInsight Magazine article on Intel SSDs with discussion and video of ION's SR-71 SpeedServer™.

• Intel^® X25-E Solid State Disks
• Intel^® S5520 ServerBoard
• Intel^® Xeon^® X5670 processors
• Intel^® 6Gb SAS RAID Controllers
• SSD RAID 0 or separate SSD volumes
• up to 96GB DDR3 RAM at 1333MHz

• SSD RAID 10 or SSD RAID 5
• Redundant Power and Cooling
• IPMI Server Monitoring

• 7x24, 4-hour On-site Service included
• On-site Crtitical Spare Parts included
• 2U Rackmount Server
• 80+ High-Efficiency Power Supply

Commandline:
-run advanced -testname sr71 -num_disks 3 -size_small 8 -size_large 1024 -type rand \
-cache_size 1024 -write 30 -duration 3600 -simulate raid0 -matrix basic -verbose 

Maximum Large MBPS=821.98 @ Small=0 and Large=6
Maximum Small IOPS=10614 @ Small=15 and Large=0
Minimum Small Latency=0.30 @ Small=1 and Large=0