StorageReview.com editor Kevin O’Brien is quite familiar with the latest offerings from SanDisk, including those resulting from the Pliant Technology acquisition nearly a year ago. As such, he was looking forward to the opportunity to test drive the SanDisk Lightning® LB406S Enterprise SSD for his readers.

Overall, when compared to others, the SanDisk Lightning drive offered class-leading performance, with Kevin noting, “…it really shined in areas with a mixture of read and write activity that generally brought other drives down.”

Considering SanDisk’s level of enterprise storage expertise, Kevin concluded, “The drive’s performance makes us that much more excited for the next generation SSD where the full benefit of the Pliant/SanDisk relationship can be realized.”

Check out the full review here.

C.T.

* SanDisk provided a drive for testing purposes

SanDisk believes that high performance interfaces are key to delivering the full performance potential of PCIe-based SSDs. Dave Landsman, SanDisk senior staff standardization engineer, shared his thoughts on NVMe-based solutions.

Click here to read Dave’s post on the NVM Express blog.

Greg

According to the Storage Magazine article, “Storage managers poised to tap new technologies,” IT budgets are finally on the rise, and storage managers are looking to emerging technologies including solid state storage, as a means for satisfying ever-increasing data growth and performance demands. A whopping 30 percent of IT managers are now considering implementing solid state drives (SSDs) into their current storage models.

At SanDisk® we are committed to providing new, innovative levels of cost-effective system design flexibility and solutions. Through advanced controller design and software architecture, our Lightning® drives deliver dramatic I/O performance and reliability improvements over competing SSD technology, as well as ensure low energy consumption in large enterprise computing environments. In addition, by replacing a number of HDDs with a few Lightning drives to create a hybrid solution, data centers can realize significant cost savings and improved performance flexibility.

To view our complete enterprise storage solutions portfolio click here.

Greg

SanDisk® ESS director of engineering, Mike James, has been elected to the SCSI Trade Association (STA) Board of Directors. The STA is a prominent, member-run industry association established to support and promote the understanding and benefits of SCSI technology to the industry.

Mike James’ election to the STA Board of Directors further underscores our commitment to be an end-to-end resource for IT managers and OEM system developers and designers within the enterprise storage space.

Congratulations Mike!

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