Adaptec has announced a new product for getting the most out of storage arrays, mixing both HDD and SSD together.
The MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Kit adds a 32GB Intel X25-E Extreme SATA SSD into the I/O path. An algorithm automatically works out the most commonly used data and caches it, enabling the information to be accessed more quickly in the future.
Sundi Sundaresh, president and chief executive of Adaptec, told IT PRO: "Normally you can have the performance of SSD with the higher cost point or the cheap HDD lacking in performance. This solution breaks the trade off."
The company claimed the MaxIQ solution's performance is five times faster than HDD alone and can save up to 50 per cent of hardware and operating costs.
It is compatible with both SATA and serial attached SCSI and ideally suits a data centre focused on high levels of read, such as web serving, file serving or databases.
John Monroe, a research vice president at Gartner, said in a statement: "Integrating high-performance SSDs in a variety of enterprise environments with new storage management techniques will help to overcome the 'I/O bottleneck,' which has grown at greater rates in recent years as the power of multi-core processors has accelerated in scale compared to the performance of traditional hard disk drives (HDDs)."
The MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Kit starts at $1,295 (783) and is available from today.
