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ATTO SiliconDisk™ RAM-based Storage Appliance

Extremely Low Latency Storage for 100GbE Enterprise
Fabric Architectures
ATTO SiliconDisk
Storage for the Most-Demanding Applications

Key Features Next generation NVMe storage and fabric connectivity holds great promise for
• Deterministic latency of < 600 ns data center storage, but today’s flash-based arrays introduce too much latency for
• Full Bandwidth up to 35 GBytes / sec applications that demand the highest performance.
• Up to 6.4M 4K IOPS
ATTO SiliconDisk™ changes the way enterprise architects design for the ultimate
• (4) 100 GbE Ethernet host ports per controller
performance in storage solutions. With just nanosecond latency and Four 100Gb
• Full NVMEoF RoCE v2 support
Ethernet ports for 400Gb of bandwidth, SiliconDisk storage blows away current SSD
• Capacity starting at 512GB and up
solutions for performance.
• ATTO eCORE Virtualized Device Services:
• Common services for every attached device With guaranteed latency in a shared ethernet fabric, ATTO SiliconDisk is the next step
• Custom management capabilities in the evolution of storage and will change the way your applications store and use
• Error recovery & reporting, retry & escalation data. Data is instantly stored and retrieved with incredible speed letting you edit more
• Custom command timeouts streams of video, capture more data instances for AI / ML, manipulate more data sets
• Firmware and enclosure services support quicker, and provides incredible performance to index look-ups.
• In-band management:
• Firmware upgrade We integrated four channels of ultra-fast 100GbE into a single chip along with our
• Event log retrieval xCORE™ storage controller attached to high speed RAM to eliminate any bottlenecks
• Core dump in performance. This architecture allows us to deliver an incredibly deterministic 600
• Port management and statistics
nanosecond latency with performance of up to 6.4M 4K IOPS and over 35 GBytes / sec
• Reboot
sustained bandwidth. Directly connect up to four host servers without a fabric or
expand to many using an Ethernet fabric switch to share as part of server cluster
• Cable management
architectures.
• Unique ATTO Insight Analytics - an AI-driven
analytics engine
Unique to ATTO SiliconDisk is our ATTO Insight Analytics™ application. It delivers real-
• Allows computing devices & storage to evolve
independently
time performance analytics on your storage network connections, storage utilization
as well as overall SiliconDisk data performance allowing you to quickly assess issues
• ATTO Infinite Write Endurance™ enables no
daily write limitations and optimize your solution. As an embedded feature we integrated sophisticated
• Supports direct-attached or Ethernet switch timing analytics to measure down to nanosecond time-slices in
environments order to give visibility to a level never before seen. Internal Memory
~0.1nsec to 100nsec
Cut your time troubleshooting storage bottlenecks.
Know with certainty application storage utilization.
All are critical factors in optimizing storage and ATTO SiliconDisk
600 nsec
getting the most from your systems.

External NVMe Storage

~50-80 usec

External Standard SSD Storage

~80-100 usec

SiliconDisk storage provides performance and low External HDD Storage

latency that is exponentially faster than traditional ~10 – 100msec
SSD and even NVMe storage solutions.

About ATTO
For over 30 years, ATTO Technology, has been a global leader specializing in network and storage
connectivity and infrastructure solutions for the most data-intensive computing environments. ATTO
works with partners to deliver end-to-end solutions to better store, manage and deliver data.

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 Nanosecond Total Latency ATTO xCORE™ Data Acceleration
Performance levels are unparalleled with up to 6.4M 4K IOPS and ATTO xCORE hardware-based data acceleration technology
throughput of up to 35 GBytes per second. Access times at 4K features software-free I/O acceleration, handling all reads and
block sizes will be deterministic and consistent with a latency of writes with almost zero additional processing overhead. The ATTO
fewer than 600 nanoseconds. Additionally, ATTO SiliconDisk xCORE Acceleration Processor is enterprise tested with thousands
features technology that eliminates the small write penalties or of current installations globally.
latency gaps often seen on SSD type devices.

Example Applications
Infinite Write Endurance™
The ultra high-performance sharable block storage of ATTO
Deficiencies in write endurance have made using non-volatile SiliconDisk is not constrained by access to a single server, opening
storage solutions in mission critical applications difficult. Device up many possible applications such as:
writes per day, or DWPD, is an endurance calculation that NAND • Adds a new tier for a Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM)
flash products use to predict when the device will become environment
unreliable. RAM Memory in ATTO SiliconDisk™ has no “per write”
flash performance penalties or worry of memory wear-out • Exceptionally low latency processing of large, complex databases
• Artificial intelligence (AI) & machine learning (ML) & data mining
• Bridges the gap between composable and virtualized infrastructures
High Performance Resiliency • Creation of high availability server clusters
• Highly responsive Online transaction processing (OLTP)
By moving RAM-level storage data externally to a shared fabric for
high availability configurations every node can have easy access to • Real-time rendering of next generation physics, effects, and other
share that data. Should cluster node failures occur, another node video/image processing
can have quick access to that data for better resiliency. System • In-memory databases
architects can re-imagine their solution to add n-1 performance • Metadata servers
models using additional nodes for better overall performance. And • Highly reliable and resilient RAID cache
for composability, ATTO SiliconDisk can be scaled up or down and
• Additional ultra-high performance storage tier
reassigned on demand.
• High speed distributed project collaboration
Intelligently Optimize Systems, Reducing • Independent scaling of memory and compute resources

Expensive Support Calls

SiliconDisk Specifications
• ATTO Insight Analytics application provides an embedded AI Input Connectors (4) 100Gb Ethernet
analytics engine enabling “on the wire” storage performance data Latency <600 ns
to cut support costs with critical troubleshooting information
Bandwidth 35 GBytes/s
• Analyze RAM storage usage, controller performance as well as, up
Latency > 6.4M IOPs
through the Ethernet fabric for a complete, unique view of true
overall system performance Form Factor 1U Rackmount / Desktop

• Analytics capabilities are hardware-based, allowing users to dig Memory Capacity 512 GB SDSK-0512-000
1024 GB SDSK-1024-000
deep without impacting system performance For larger capacities, contact ATTO.
• No debugging or other specialized tools needed – everything is
available to the user via the GUI with no performance penalty
• Unprecedented granularity as well as customized data
visualization tools
• ATTO Insight Analytics application is readily available for
integration with OEM software

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Servers
Server Servers Servers

Direct-attached for 400 GbE performance. Switch-less direct-connect server configuration. Fabric-attached for greater scalability.

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