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EasyCo MFT-500 Series MLC Flash Solid State Disks
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This MFT-enabled drive is designed for small to medium sized servers with up to five or six drives. Typically, the MFT-500 will improve storage IO performance by 10x versus a 15,000 rpm SAS drive, and 30x versus a commodity 7200 rpm SATA drive.
Similarly, the effective erase life of the MFT-500 increases more than 50-fold from that expected of the base flash drive model. As a result, the MFT-500 can be used with an expectancy of five years (or more) of life provided that less than 75% of the drive is over-written with new data in an average day. This means that the MFT-500 is suited for about 90% of server applications.
This positions the MFT-500 series drive squarely as an ideal solution for laptop, workstation, and even mainstream server usage. It also allows for direct replacement of 15,000 rpm SAS arrays with Flash SSD with dramatically reduced costs and an eight-fold performance gain.
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| EasyCo MFT-500 MLC SATA Drives with MFT License and 1 Year Warranty |
| Part Number |
Product Description |
Cap
GB |
Format |
Size |
Flash
Type |
Case
Type |
Price |
| MFTS-525-032 |
MFT-500 32GB for Servers |
32 |
SATA |
2.5" |
MLC |
Plastic |
$289 |
| MFTS-525-064 |
MFT-500 64GB for Servers |
64 |
SATA |
2.5" |
MLC |
Plastic |
$499 |
| MFTS-525-128 |
MFT-500 128GB for Servers |
128 |
SATA |
2.5" |
MLC |
Plastic |
$909 |
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The following graph shows the throughput of the Mobi 1000 drive both as a bare drive, and with the same drive MFT-enabled. 15,000 rpm and 7,200 rpm hard disk performance is shown for comparison purposes.
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The following table demonstrates the point that the random read rate of an MFT-500 is extremely fast. A 15,000 rpm hard drive performs only about 250 random reads a second, and a 7,200 rpm hard drive only delivers 70. As a result, the MFT-500's random read is literally 25 times faster than that of a Laptop hard drive. But the table also shows that the MFT-500's native random write capability is literally as much as 30 times slower than its random read.
The table also shows how MFT's linear method of random writing improves random write speed to a rate dramatically beyond the random read rate. |
| EasyCo MFT-500 MLC Drive Performance Results |
Block
Size |
Random Read Tests: |
Random Write Tests |
Random Write with MFT |
| 1 Thread |
10 Threads |
1 Thread |
10 Threads |
1 Thread |
10 Threads |
| IOPS |
BW |
IOPS |
BW |
IOPS |
BW |
IOPS |
BW |
IOPS |
BW |
IOPS |
BW |
| 4k |
1,972 |
8.7M |
2,065 |
8.1M |
68 |
275K |
72 |
495.5K |
10,235 |
40.0M |
11,005 |
43.0MQ |
| 8k |
1,811 |
14.1M |
1,891 |
15.8M |
64 |
512K |
75 |
994.3K |
6,668 |
52.1M |
6,389 |
50.9M |
| 16k |
1,541 |
24.1M |
1,624 |
25.4M |
62 |
1.0M |
81 |
2.0M |
3,341 |
52.5M |
3,765 |
59.8M |
| 32k |
1,255 |
39.2M |
1,328 |
42.5M |
62 |
1.9M |
79 |
3.9M |
1,929 |
60.3M |
1,953 |
61.1M |
| 64k |
353 |
22.1M |
1,033 |
65.6M |
65 |
4.0M |
85 |
7.7M |
985 |
62.6M |
1,029 |
64.4M |
| 256k |
382 |
96.6M |
386 |
97.5M |
16 |
4.0K |
16 |
4.0M |
254 |
64.7M |
283 |
71.8M |
| 1mb |
101 |
101.2M |
106 |
106.0M |
5 |
5.0M |
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58 |
58.4M |
68 |
68.3M |
| 2mb |
56 |
112.2M |
54 |
110.7M |
3 |
6,1M |
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30 |
61.6M |
31 |
68.6M |
| Aggregate IOPS without MFT |
194 |
Higher is better. A single 15,000 rpm SAS drive has a value of 250, and a 7,200 rpm SATA drive rates at 70. Click here for explanation of calculation methodology. |
| Aggregate IOPS with MFT |
2,131 |
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The following graph shows the projected daily erase life capability based upon data size written. Clearly, when MFT enabled, the EasyCo MFT-500 can accept more than 75% overwrite of the entire drive on a daily basis, no matter what the data size, and still be expected to last five years. Given that the vast majority of servers overwrite less than 20% of their surface a day, it is clear that an MFT enabled EasyCo MFT-500 is an ideal solution for a broad spectrum of Servers and Workstations.
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The following table compares the EasyCo MFT-500 both MFT-enabled and bare with the reasonable write throughput of different hard disks. It also looks at the duty cycle to complete the work shown. This, in another way, makes the point that when MFT enabled, the EasyCo MFT-500 is just a lot faster than hard disks.
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| EasyCo MFT-500 Random Writes Permissible for 5-Year Drive Life |
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7,200 rpm
SATA HDD |
15,000 rpm
SAS HDD |
32gb
Drive |
64gb
Drive |
| Maximum write throughput per day without MFT |
19GB |
69GB |
0.5GB |
1GB |
| Maximum write throughput per day with MFT |
n/a |
n/a |
26GB |
52GB |
| Hours per day needed to finish read/write activity |
24.00 |
24.00 |
0.15 |
.29 |
| Drive Utilization Percentage |
100% |
100% |
1/2% |
1% |
| Thruput per day is based upon an average data size of 10.66kb and a read/write mix of 70% reads and 30% writes. The values shown for the 7,200 and 15,000 rpm Hard Disks are the maximum possible attainable values if these drives are run at 100% duty cycle 7x24. Values for the flash media are calculated as described here. Here, the limit to throughput is not time, but rather the number of safely available write cycles based upon a goal-life of at least five years. |
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EasyCo MFT-500 with MLC Technical Specification |
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Host Interface |
Interface |
SATA 1.0a Standard |
| Transfer Mode |
PIO mode (0~4), DMA mode (0~2), Ultra DMA mode(0~6) |
| Capacity (GB) |
32, 64, 128(GB) |
| Form Factor |
2.5" |
| Performance |
Average Access Time* |
0.1 msec |
| Sustained Read** |
120 MB/sec |
| Sustained Write** |
80 MB/sec |
| Power |
Input Voltage |
5VCC±5% |
| Endurance |
Write Endurance (sequential) |
>14 years @ 50GB write per day |
| Read Endurance |
Unlimited |
| Wear-leveling algorithm |
Dynamic and static wear-leveling |
| Data Retention |
10 years at 25℃ |
| Reliability |
MTBF |
1 million hours |
| ECC |
7-bit Error Correction Code (ECC) |
| Environment |
Operating Temperature |
0~70℃ |
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