Paper Title: Overcome Blast Radius Anxiety: Ultrafast Rebuilds & Performance for Hi-Cap SSDs

Paper Abstract: Organizations look to keep up with surging data storage requirements, especially with high capacity 32TB+ SSDs but struggle to address blast radius concerns. Current data protection with hardware RAID 10 uses excessive redundancy in array mirroring, wasting significant SSD capacity, and RAID 5/6 schemes penalize storage performance. All existing technologies have extensive rebuild times that are beyond acceptable risk levels. The Pliops Extreme Data Processor with new data structures and algorithms is changing these dynamics to improve storage infrastructure reliability with ultrafast rebuilds while maintaining high performance even during drive rebuilds. These fast rebuild times enable greater storage densities with high performance, up to 6x more storage capacity, and >15x better endurance. By eliminating legacy RAID tradeoffs, enterprise and cloud data centers can deploy high-capacity NVMe SSDs for their most data-intensive database, analytics, and AI/ML applications. The presentation discusses how to enable these capabilities to address blast-radius concerns including a demonstration of how fast a high-capacity SSD can rebuild with minimal impact on performance.

Paper Author: Stephen Shyn, Technologist Strategic Technical Engagements, Pliops

Author Bio: Stephen is a Senior Solutions Architect at Pliops and has held management positions in Solutions Engineering, Business Development and Field Applications engineering throughout his career. Before Pliops, he worked for Western Digital, Apple, and Phison, and holds a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.