SanDisk breaks the £1/GB flash storage barrier with InfiniFlash
Sandisk has announced InfiniFlash, the company's first foray into flash storage arrays which are being described as an entirely new category in the market.
InfiniFlash is a 512TB, all-flash, fully redundant, fully scalable array designed for cold storage and low-latency, fast-access read jobs.
SanDisk believes that the price point of under £1 per gigabyte makes it viable for companies to create all-flash data centres for the first time. It will, at the very least, put the willies up the spindle storage market. The array of 64 hot-swappable cards, each holding 8TB of data (itself a record) requires no de-duplication or compression to achieve the specs, which include 780,000 sustained individual operations per second and a throughput of 7GB/s.
