Compression with no performance impact

Up to 3:1 inline hardware–accelerated compression and encryption in every FlashCore Module that has zero impact to performance across the full range of workloads.

Encryption with no performance impact

Supports FIPS140–3 Level 2 encryption with IBM Security Key Lifecycle Manager centralized key management and full hot–swap capabilities without performance impact.

Groundbreaking density and performance

This storage media provides extraordinary density with the large

38.4TB being the highest capacity flash drive available in the market, while still achieving latency as low as 50 microseconds.

Smart data placement

Automatically position the most active data in SLC flash and the fastest QLC pages for highest performance, while the other data is placed on slower QLC pages to provide the highest flash drive density available.

Continuous health monitor for higher endurance

Heat bins get moved around, keeping blocks within 5% of wear. Health binning brings up to a 57% improvement to the endurance of the flash. Heat segregation brings up to a 45% reduction in write amplification.

Optimizing Voltage Thresholds

Think of optimizing voltage as the fountain of youth for flash, shifting voltage as necessary to ensure correct operation of all flash cells regardless of age or wear.

FlashCore Modules capacities

Available raw capacities: 4.8TB, 9.6TB, 19.2TB and 38.4TB. The maximum available raw effective capacities, resulting from hardware–based zero–penalty compression are: 22TB, 28TB, 57TB & 115TB

Ransomware Threat Detection

Each FCM4, employs multiple hardware–based technologies, which are used to examine all I/Os for anomalous behavior, which it can detect within seconds and report to Storage Virtualize, and Storage Insights.