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.
The round brings SolidFire’s total outside investment to $68 million.
The 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 – at a full-scale 100 nodes – delivering 3.4PB of effective capacity and 7.5 million IOPS in a 1U with dedup and compression.
It’s designed for large-scale public and private cloud infrastructure.
The 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’s upwards of $4 for 60TB-3.4PB.