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EasyCo MFT-500 Series MLC Flash Solid State Disks

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.

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

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.

EasyCo MFT-500 Performance Graph

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     58 58.4M 68 68.3M
2mb 56 112.2M 54 110.7M 3 6,1M     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

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.

5k performance graph

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.

EasyCo MFT-500 Random Writes Permissible for 5-Year Drive Life
  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.
EasyCo MFT-500 with MLC Technical Specification
   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℃