Storage is a major concern for businesses struggling to backup and manage all the data they generate, a situation not helped by the advent of generative AI, which has greatly disrupted traditional storage solutions.
Huawei's answer to this problem is its OceanStor A800 NAS device. Originally unveiled last year, Huawei properly showcased it to journalists and European partners gathered at the recent Innovative Data Infrastructure (IDI) 2024 Forum in Berlin.
As we reported, the OceanStor A800 is capable of generating 24 million IOPS per controller enclosure, delivering ten times the performance of existing storage and ten times the data mobility. It supports PB/s bandwidth and 100 million IOPS and, according to Huawei, offers 99.9999% data reliability.
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For now, the OceanStor A800's storage comes in the form of 30 and 50 TB SSDs, but that will change when the company introduces a 128 TB SSD next year. Huawei said its massive new internal drive, previously unveiled but officially unveiled at the IDI 2024 Forum, “will consume 88% less storage space and 92% less power than peer SSDs when storing every PB of data.” “. It was not revealed exactly who the “peer supplier” is.
Michael Fan, vice president of data storage marketing at Huawei, said Blocks and files These new SSDs “will use a combination of TLC and QLC flash to optimize the capacity and life of the drive. “They have a controller developed by Huawei and come in U.2 and palm-sized physical formats.” The site also noted that “the palm-sized form factor is thinner than a U.2 SSD and could be longer or shorter than that form factor. It appears to be similar to the EDSFF E3.S format, but Huawei does not use the EDSFF nomenclature.”
Although Huawei hasn't said much about the 128TB SSDs, or the proprietary technology behind them, it seems likely that they will be used exclusively in its OceanStor A800 NAS device for now, although they may become more available in the future. .
