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Avere Unveils Industry’s First-of-its-Kind Hybrid Storage Appliance
April 2013 by Marc Jacob
Avere Systems announced another industry-first in the innovation and development of the next generation of storage with the introduction of the Avere FXT 3800. This hybrid Edge filer contains both Flash/Solid State Drive (SSD) media and Serial Attached SCSI hard drives (SAS HDD) and delivers significant performance gains in benchmark testing.
With this new hybrid technology, Avere can now automatically tier data across four media types: RAM, SSD, SAS and SATA HDDs, delivering maximum performance for the hottest files, while at the same time moving cold data out of the performance tier and onto SATA to minimize costs and shrink the data storage footprint. Dynamic tiering assures that every block of file data is located in storage that matches its current level of activity. As a result, the new system is 40 percent faster than the FXT 3500, the company’s previous top performer on the SPECsfs2008 NFS benchmark test, and is far less costly than flash-only solutions.
The Avere FXT 3800 Edge filer contains 144GB of DRAM, 2GB NVRAM and 800GB of SSD to accelerate the read, write and metadata performance of most active data. It contains 7.8TB of 10k SAS HDDs to store a large working set of recently active data. The FXT 3800’s 2x 10GbE and 6x 1GbE ports allow connectivity to clients and servers for high performance access to active data and to core filers for infrequently accessed data. Each unit can be clustered to other FXT Edge filers with scaling of up to 50 nodes for linear performance and high availability.
– Availability and Pricing:
Available within 30 days, the new Avere FXT 3800 starts at $112,500.
