Hyper-scale data centers (and many enterprises as well) face relentless pressure to contain costs. One way to lower those costs is to use consumer-grade solid-state drives in their scale-out server architectures, instead of the enterprise-class SSDs that are routinely used in these environments. This strategy can lower the initial cost for flash drives, but can have other undesirable consequences that cause real, long-term problems. In these high drive-count infrastructures, deploying the wrong flash can cause a nightmare scenario of: • Inconsistent Performance of non-enterprise drives • Poor Reliability of non-enterprise drives • Replacement of failed drives - adds cost, disruption • Management of mixed drive environment - can be complex • High Cost - of abandoning alternative SSDs altogether Protect yourself and register for our live webinar “Hyper-scale Nightmare: 5 Ways Flash can Cripple your Data Center” featuring Storage Switzerland Founder, George Crump and Shawn Worsell, Director of Product Management at OCZ/Toshiba.

1. Hyper-scale Nightmare:
The Potential Consequences of using
Consumer-grade Flash in the Datacenter
Learn how to avoid:
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1. Inconsistent Performance
2. Poor Reliability
3. Frequent Drive Replacement
4. Excessive Management Overhead
5. High Cost - of using all enterprise SSDs
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2. About George Crump
● Founder of Storage Switzerland, and its
lead analyst
● Areas of expertise include performance
optimization and data protection
● Recognized for his talks, white papers
and chalktalk videos on such current
technology as all-flash arrays, SSDs
and software-defined storage
● He has 25 years of experience
designing storage solutions for data
centers across the US

3. ● Analyst firm focused on
storage, cloud and
virtualization
● Knowledge of these markets
is gained through product
testing and interaction with
end users and suppliers
● The results of this research
can be found in the articles,
videos, webinars, product
analysis and case studies on
our web site:
http://storageswiss.com
Storage Swiss Background

4. About Shawn Worsell
Shawn Worsell is OCZ Storage Solutions’
Director of Product Management, focused
on expanding Toshiba’s Enterprise
footprint with innovative SATA based SSD
products. Prior to OCZ, he managed
NVIDIA’s Quadro Mobile Workstation
graphics solutions where he captured and
maintained the market leadership position
in professional notebook graphics through
an ongoing quest for competitive
advantage. In his limited spare time,
Shawn also enjoys sailing, snowboarding
and creating music.

5. OCZ Storage Solutions is…
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…a leading solid-state storage provider that
addresses client and enterprise storage challenges
…a Toshiba Group Company
…a fully-integrated technology company whose sole
mission is to deliver best-in-class SSDs
» PROVEN IN-HOUSE TECHNOLOGY
Multiple award winning product generations feature
proprietary controller/firmware
» BROAD MARKET EXPOSURE
100s of reseller, distribution, enterprise & OEM
customers
» GLOBAL BRAND RECOGNITION
1000s of rave product reviews from around the world
OCZ delivers intelligent and optimized approaches to how your
data is captured, stored, accessed, analyzed and leveraged in
today’s data-driven era.

6. Polling Question
How would you characterize your company’s use
of SDDs?
❏ We only use hard disk drives (HDDs)
❏ We use only enterprise-grade SSDs
❏ We use only client or consumer-grade SSDs
❏ We use both consumer- and
enterprise-grade SSDs

7. Polling Question
How would you characterize your company’s use
of SDDs?

8. The State of the Hyper-scale Datacenter

9. Cost Containment is a Priority
Hyper-competitive environment
• Web-based businesses
• Public cloud-enabled services
• Enterprise cost pressures

10. Common Solution:
Use consumer-grade SSDs
• Simple to implement
• Provides Immediate Cost Relief
• Enterprise IT Staff don’t need
‘zero-touch’ solutions
But using consumer-grade SSDs can have
unintended consequences...

11. Potential Consequences of Using
Consumer-grade SSDs

12. Inconsistent Performance
• FOB vs Steady State
• Importance of Flash Controller
- wear leveling
- over-provisioning
Performance different in Consumer-grade drives
than with Enterprise SSDs

13. Poor Reliability
• Power loss can cause data corruption
• Data corruption can affect metadata
• Metadata corruption can cause drive failure
Consumer-grade drives have no protection for
data in-flight

14. Frequent Drive Replacement
• Drive failure means server is down
- reduced production and resiliency
• Failed drives = eventual replacement
- more work for IT, more cost for business

15. Management Overhead
• Most datacenters are mixed environments
- enterprise drives used in critical servers
• Variety of consumer-grade drives used
- may be supported by
multiple SSD vendors

16. High Cost - of using all enterprise SSDs
In an effort to address first four consequences, IT
may give up on consumer-grade drives altogether
- and pay the price

17. How to Fill the Void
- between consumer and enterprise SSDs

18. Hyper-scale Datacenters need a New SSD
- one that acts like an enterprise drive
and is priced more like a consumer drive
• Price point close to consumer drives
• Good, consistent performance
• Protection against drive failures
• Enterprise-level supplier

19. Meet Saber 1000
When Data Grows & Demand Increases, But Budgets Don’t
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» Solid-state solution for high-volume deployment enterprise applications
• Designed for applications with >90% read-intensive I/O workloads
• Ideal for hyper-scale, web-hosting and distributed computing environments
• Targeted for media streaming, VoD, online archiving, web browsing, etc.
• Predictable, sustained performance
» Part of the OCZ enterprise product portfolio
• Provides a cost-effective entry point to OCZ enterprise SATA SSD solutions
• Competes in the largest serviceable segment of the enterprise
SATA SSD market where 70% of deployments support
read-intensive applications
• Delivers OCZ’s highest enterprise SATA SSD
capacity (960GB)

20. Saber 1000 Feature-Set
Delivers OCZ’s highest enterprise SATA SSD user capacity at 960GB, in addition to
480GB, 240GB and 120GB options
Leverages OCZ’s Barefoot 3 controller, in-house firmware and next generation Toshiba
A19nm NAND
Supports Power Failure Management Plus (PFM+) in the event of power loss
Utilizes small 7mm, 2.5” enclosure footprint
Superior TCO with lower energy and cooling costs (uses 3.7W active)
Central SSD management via OCZ StoragePeak 1000 Software
5-year warranty
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21. Saber 1000: Targeting High-Volume Applications
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22. Thank you!
Storage Switzerland
http://www.storageswiss.com
gcrump@storage-switzerland.com
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23. Hyper-scale Nightmare:
The Potential Consequences of using
Consumer-grade Flash in the Datacenter
For complete Audio and Q&A please register for the On Demand Version at:
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