Violin Memory has introduced the 6264 array, doubling the capacity of its earlier 6232 product from 32 terabutes (TB) to 64TB, while remaining in the same form factor. The company has done this by migrating to 19nm MLC NAND flash from Toshiba.
Violin says that this move was made possible by the fact that the company’s arrays aren’t built using standard SSDs, and claims that this has caused Violin’s all flash array revenues to be significantly higher than those of any of its competitors.
With this product the company doubles its power efficiency, when measured in watts per gigabyte, and boosts its Continue reading “Violin Ups Capacity, Performance, and Economics”