Today, SanDisk expanded its portfolio of enterprise storage solutions with the new Lightning® PCI Express (PCIe) Solid State Accelerator (SSA) cards. The PCIe SSAs combine SanDisk’s proven enterprise SSD technology and its NAND Flash leadership to provide OEMs and system integrators with an ideal solution for accelerating enterprise applications in data centers, server farms and cloud computing environments.

SanDisk PCIe SSAs deliver low latency, low maximum response time during peak periods using our advanced controller to manage data protection and I/O functions with little impact on the CPU and without adding costly DRAM. This type of performance is ideal for a wide range of businesses, including financial institutions analyzing and processing massive amounts of information around the clock; to social media and website providers whose customers demand a nearly instant response with every click of a mouse; to media content creators editing high-definition videos.

We’re really excited about offering PCIe solutions to the enterprise market, so stay tuned for more good news from SanDisk in this area in the future.

The full press release with additional information and specs can be found here. A video overview and high-level description of the new PCIe products can also be viewed here.

Greg

SQLServerCentral.com’s Wesley Brown holds enterprise storage to high standards, and when testing SanDisk’s Lightning® LS 300S, he didn’t hold back. His two-part review covers drive basics and I/O performance, and then delves into benchmarks and long-term stress tests.

The Lightning drive performed very well in each test pattern, one “real world” scenario and the other loosely based on the Intel database test pattern. The drive performed particularly well with response times and capacity for write workloads.

Wesley concludes, “I can say without a doubt the … LS 300 is one of the finest solid state disk I’ve ever worked with.”

See the full review here: Part One and Part Two.

Greg

SanDisk Lightning Enterprise Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been named the gold winner in the Enterprise Products of the Year category in the Best in Biz Awards, the only national business awards program judged by members of the press and industry analysts.

Best in Biz Awards 2011 were presented in more than 30 categories, including Best Overall Company of the Year, Most Innovative Company of the Year, Executive of the Year and Best New Product of the Year. More than 150 entries were received in this year’s awards program, from an impressive array of public and private companies from a variety of industries, sectors and regions. The companies that won gold, silver and bronze awards in this year’s program represent the best in American business.

Being named the Gold winner further underscores our ongoing commitment to providing IT managers and OEM system developers and designers with the best performing enterprise-class data storage solutions possible.

You can see the complete list of winners here: http://www.bestinbizawards.com/2011-winners-product/.

Greg

Shortly following SanDisk’s acquisition of Pliant Technology, editor Logan Harbaugh put five drives with price ranging from $250 to $8400 to the test for his review on ITworld.com, including our Lightning® LS 300S 3.5” 300GB drive*. Others include:

• Intel SSDSA2SH064G1GC 2.5” 64GB
• LSI WarpDrive SLP-300 (SSS-6200) PCI-E 300GB
• OWC Mercury Extreme Pro RE OWCSSDMXRE400 2.5” 400GB
• Plextor PX-128M2S-02 2.5” 128GB

The Lightning drive fared incredibly well among the competition, with Logan noting, “Of the drives connected by SATA or SAS, the Pliant was the clear performance winner, with very high throughput and very low response times, ideal for database applications.” In addition, with no performance degradation during the write-intensive test and available expandability, he concluded that the Lightning drive is an “excellent choice for databases that are performance-limited by storage performance.”

Check out the full review here when you have the chance.

Greg

*SanDisk provided a drive for testing purposes