{"id":8400,"date":"2013-07-26T13:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2747723"},"modified":"2013-07-26T13:51:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-26T13:51:00","slug":"solidfire-pushes-ssd-costs-below-hdds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/solidfire-pushes-ssd-costs-below-hdds\/","title":{"rendered":"SolidFire Pushes SSD Costs Below HDD\u2019s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SolidFire, the Colorado-based all-SSD purveyor, has gotten a $31 million C round led by strategic investor Samsung, which is supplying the 960GB flash drives in its latest storage system.<br \/>\nThe round brings SolidFire\u2019s total outside investment to $68 million.<br \/>\nThe widgetry, called the SF9010 and the third system out from SolidFire, is supposed to be the largest and fastest SSD storage system to hit the market \u2013 at a full-scale 100 nodes \u2013 delivering 3.4PB of effective capacity and 7.5 million IOPS in a 1U with dedup and compression.<br \/>\nIt\u2019s designed for large-scale public and private cloud infrastructure.<br \/>\nThe 9010 is supposed to retire the old canard that flash is more expensive than hard disk storage by reportedly coming in at less than $3 a GB or below $1\/IOP to HDD\u2019s upwards of $4 for 60TB-3.4PB. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2747723\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolidFire, the Colorado-based all-SSD purveyor, has gotten a $31 million C round led by strategic investor Samsung, which is supplying the 960GB flash drives in its latest storage system.<br \/>\nThe round brings SolidFire&rsquo;s total outside investment to $68 million.<br \/>\nThe widgetry, called the SF9010 and the third system out from SolidFire, is supposed to be the largest and fastest SSD storage system to hit the market &ndash; at a full-scale 100 nodes &ndash; delivering 3.4PB of effective capacity and 7.5 million IOPS in a 1U with dedup and compression.<br \/>\nIt&rsquo;s designed for large-scale public and private cloud infrastructure.<br \/>\nThe 9010 is supposed to retire the old canard that flash is more expensive than hard disk storage by reportedly coming in at less than $3 a GB or below $1\/IOP to HDD&rsquo;s upwards of $4 for 60TB-3.4PB. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2747723\" target=\"_blank\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}