Flashtec™ NVRAM Drive Family
NV1616 and NV1604 Flashtec PCIe NVRAM Drives
The Microsemi Flashtec™ NVRAM Drive family provides a PCI Express NVRAM
solution based on the most advanced NVMe controller on the market. This
family provides a new level of performance to the memory/storage hierarchy,
ushering storage system OEMs, cloud applications, and service providers to
the era of storage-class memory.
Establishes New Storage Tier with Superior Performance
• Non-volatile DRAM-like performance, NAND persistence
• Over 10 million IOPS (direct memory mode, available for NV1616 only)
• Sub-microsecond latency
Ease-of-Use for Faster Time to Market
• Industry-standard interfaces
• Application-friendly for ease of integration
• Zero maintenance green backup
• “Enterprise Class” for mission-critical data center
• Uncompromising quality and reliability
• Unlimited endurance NVRAM
• Small form factor for high-density rack solutions
Highlights
• Unlimited endurance: unlike SSDs, DRAM has
practically unlimited endurance, and with up to
16 GB of non-volatile DRAM memory, NVRAM
drives can fit very demanding workloads as well
• High-performance I/O: 1 million IOPS in NVMe
block mode (512 B); over 10 million IOPS in
direct memory mode
• Power failure protection: flash-based backup
unit protects DRAM content in the event of a
power failure
• Higher availability: a fast backup and recovery
cycle ensures that mission-critical applications
will have a shorter recovery time across power
failure events
• Lower TCO: eliminating the Uninterruptible
Power Supply (UPS) or Backup Battery Unit
(BBU) frees up rack space and reduces support
and maintenance costs without compromising
critical system data across power failures
Cloud-Scale Performance and Availability
While SSD solutions continue to replace traditional HDDs in the performance
tier of the storage hierarchy, there remains a significant performance gap
between the memory tiers and the storage tiers in terms of latency, endurance,
and high availability. As application demands continue to increase at an ever
growing pace to keep up with the growth rate of cloud services, relying on
volatile memory to achieve desired performance leaves applications vulnerable
to data loss in the event of a system failure.
There is a need for a new tier of memory that provides mission-critical
applications with the necessary safety net for their data while keeping pace
with the application requirements for performance without compromising data
protection, reliability, and availability.
Flashtec NVRAM Drive products serve exactly that need, and with >10M
IOPS and up to 16 GB of memory per card, the product family can address
the needs of the most demanding applications.
Lower Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
Power failure protection is built into Flashtec NVRAM Drive products. A flash-
based backup unit protects DRAM content in the event of a power failure.
This backup unit eliminates the Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) or Backup
Battery Unit (BBU), frees up rack space, and reduces support and maintenance
costs without compromising critical system data across power failures.
Applications
• Write cache for low-latency response time
• 64-bit addressable persistent metadata
memory region
• Persistent shared memory for scale-out
clustered systems
• High-performance journaling or write ahead
logging
• Persistent cache for fast cache rebuild
• Performance tier de-staging to sequential-
access capacity tier
Included
• NVRAM card
• SCM-F100/F35 module and cable
Flashtec™ NVRAM Drive Family
NV1616 and NV1604 Flashtec PCIe NVRAM Drives
Features
General Features
Host interface
PCI express
Form factor
Access modes
Memory capacity
Backup store
Data retention offline
Backup power supply
Restore time
Backup time
Backup cycles
Monitoring and alerts
Hardware Support
Driver support industry
Application support
Authentication
x8 lane
3.0
Low profile MD2 PCIe add-in card
Block mode and direct memory mode
4/16 GB configurations
Flash module
3 months
Tethered super capacitor mode
<15 sec
<20 sec
Up to 3000
Yes
Supported NVMe drivers
NV-lib for application integration
Block Mode Access
Direct Memory Access
Data Protection and Security
Optional host authentication
sequence
Mechanical and Environmental
Form factor
MD2 low profile PCIe card
Operating temperature
0 °C to 50 °C at 200 LFM
Power consumption
<20 W typical; 5 W idle
Reliability
Maintenance
No maintenance required
Operational lifetime
5 years
Compliance and Certification
NVMe.org
NVMe 1.0 compatible
PCIe SIG
Certified
Ordering Information
Model
NV1616
NV1604
Description
16 GB NVRAM PCIe drive and
SCM-F100
4 GB NVRAM PCIe drive and
SCM-F35
Part Number
2284700-R
2285400-R
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