- IBM's FlashSystem C200 goals to switch HDDs with high-capacity flash storage
- It delivers 1.1PB uncooked capability, 2.3PB efficient, with 200,000 IOPS efficiency
- This flash choice is optimized for archives, backups, and sequential workloads
Pure Storage has been predicting the tip of spinning disks for a while, and now IBM is seeking to speed up this shift with the launch of the FlashSystem C200, a high-capacity flash-based storage system designed to switch conventional HDDs in enterprises whereas providing excessive density, endurance, and decrease operational prices.
IBM positions the C200 as a lower-cost flash various ("Use it like TLC, pay for it like QLC," IBM boasts) for archive storage, backup repositories, and workloads that may tolerate greater latency.
The system integrates with IBM’s Storage Virtualize, permitting it to affix a FlashSystem grid for non-disruptive migrations.
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The writing is on the wall
Blocks & Information says, “The C200 makes use of IBM’s proprietary FlashCore Modules (FCMs) with a Gen 4 model offering 46TB uncooked capability utilizing a pseudo-SLC frontend to the QLC NAND. It has 32 Xeon cores and a 256GB cache offering 1-2ms latency, as much as 200,000 IOPS, and 23GBps throughput. There’s a mounted 24-slot configuration with 1.1PB uncooked capability in a 2RU chassis. As a result of the system has always-on hardware-assisted compression, IBM says it has 2.3PB of efficient capability.”
Alongside FlashSystem grid scaling and a full suite of enterprise software program features, the C200 options eight onboard 10GbE ports and optionally available configurations of 16x 32Gb FC/NVMe-FC or 8x 25/10GbE NVMe-TCP ports. IBM says it delivers 10 occasions higher efficiency than conventional HDD or hybrid options, making it optimized for sequential workloads.
"The writing actually is on the wall for the final of the spinning rust…" IBM blogger Barry Whyte writes. "Over the following few years we’ll see the value level for Flash get nearer and nearer, and finally even scale back decrease than NL-SAS. With 300, 500 and even 1PB Flash drives being teased within the business, it's virtually unimaginable for even probably the most superior magnetic platter applied sciences to maintain up."
FlashSystem C200 has an indicative end-user value of $381,000, which Blocks & Information calls “respectable,” and it will likely be typically obtainable worldwide on March 21.
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