New Flashtec NVMe was created to best manage data centers inside of a growing enterprise, offering high levels of bandwidth, security and flexibility.
The Flashtec NVMe 5016 has been designed to support enterprise needs, especially with tasks that require latency and performance. This includes tasks such as transaction processing, financial data processing and data mining. It is also tailored to artificial intelligence (AI) usage, with a sequential read performance of over 14GB per second as well as strong bandwidth for moving large volumes of data quickly.
The NVMe can deliver over 2.5GB of data per watt, as well as a high random read performance of 3.5M IOs per second. On top of this, the NVMe uses node technologies to manage power, having autonomous power reduction capabilities and automatic idling of processors. Strong Error Correction Code (ECC) is built into the device to aid the Flash memory.
Pete Hazen, vice president of Microchip’s data center solutions business unit said: “Our fifth-generation Flashtec NVMe controller is designed to lead the market in fulfilling the increased need for high-performance, power-optimized SSDs”
Huabo Cai, chairman and CEO of Longsys said: “Microchip’s reliable and flexible architecture of the PCIe Flashtec products offers an excellent foundation for Longsys’ enterprise solutions with multiple advanced NAND Flash, delivering efficiency and reliability to standard or customized high-performance enterprise SSDs.”
Using advanced virtualisation capabilities, such as single root I/O virtualization (SR-IOV), makes the NVMe far more resourceful, allowing it to reduce the ownership cost of the device. Its flexibility and scalability of the device make it adaptable to whatever is required. It can also provide on-demand cloud service and has a programmable platform for users who want to take advantage of its Flexible Data Placement (FDP)
The more data a system holds, the more it becomes subject to external threats. This is why NVMe is fitted with enterprise-level integrity and dependability, resulting in comprehensive data protection and safeguarding of sensitive information.
Firmware and data are protected throughout the product's lifecycle to ensure no data breaches are possible. These features are Secure Boot and Root-of-Trust, also requiring dual signature authentication for OEM or end-user verification. Data is encrypted at both the link level, and data-in-transit, as well as at the media level, data-at-rest. This is following the guidance of the strict security protocols provided by the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) and Trusted Computing Group (TCG) Opal standards.
Data is reliably supported with a range of features, including Double Error Detection (SECDED) as well as overlapping end-to-end data protection with NVMe Protection Information, and single error correction. A final feature ensuring the safety of information is its failover recovery mechanisms, using a Redundant Array of Independent Disk techniques.
PM35160-KIT and PMT35161-KIT evaluation boards support the ecosystem of the device, which is assisted by PCIe-compliant front-end firmware.
