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One of the key enterprise storage challenges that IT managers continue to face are the wide range of applications driving a variety of mixed workloads, not only from a support perspective, but from a performance perspective. Efficient and predictable performance is essential to the success of the enterprise so that connected users are provided with a faster, more responsive computing experience. Without this level of consistency, I/O response latency spikes become evident in the system requiring IT personnel to adjust application workload requirements accordingly, which in turn, increases maintenance and support costs, as well as overall total cost of ownership (TCO).

The combination of SATA's strong market position in SSD storage coupled with key IT challenges has created an opportunity for improved SATA-based storage products and technologies. In understanding these market dynamics, OCZ recently introduced its next-generation SATA III Intrepid 3000 Series of enterprise-class SSDs delivering the industry's best sustained performance coupled with predictable, efficient and consistent latency responses.

THE INTREPID APPROACH
The Intrepid 3000 SSD Series supports the latest 19 nanometer NAND flash and are based on 100GB, 200GB, 400GB and 800GB usable storage capacities, in 2.5-inch industry standard form factors representing OCZ's highest performing and largest capacity enterprise SATA SSDs to date. The architecture is based on OCZ's Everest 2 platform and provides advanced flash management and endurance capabilities that extend NAND life and enhance drive reliability making the entire portfolio ideally suited for mega data centres and makers of storage appliances where optimum performance, backed by high endurance and reliability, are critical.

As mixed workloads are an IT concern, the Intrepid 3000 Series is available in two distinct configurations to address both read-intensive and write-intensive applications:

• The Intrepid 3600 features reliable and cost-effective MLC NAND designed for read-intensive applications such as online archiving, media streaming and web browsing
• The Intrepid 3800 features high endurance eMLC) NAND designed for write-intensive or mixed workload applications such as Online Transaction Processing (OLTP), Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI), email servers and analytics.

SUSTAINED PERFORMANCE
Sustained performance is performance delivered over time. To measure this requires that the SSD be in a steady state condition having experienced enough program/erase (P/E) cycles so that write operations performance times are stable and can be evaluated in a consistent manner. Unlike a new SSD which is essentially empty and can perform write operations without having to stop and erase blocks first, sustained performance does not include the initial fresh out-of-the-box (FOB) period which will be faster when compared to an SSD that is used or saturated.

'Incredibly fast' best describes the new Intrepid 3000 Series. In a steady state condition by which the drive is writing, erasing and re-writing data repeatedly over the full capacity of the drive, the sustained performance for both large block sequential operations, as well as small block random operations, is at the top of its competitive class with specifications that include:

• 520 MB/s for sequential reads (128K blocks)
• 470 MB/s for sequential writes (128K blocks)
• 89,000 IOPS for random reads (4K blocks)
• 40,000 IOPS for random writes (4K blocks)

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