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Mtron PRO-7000 Series Flash Solid State Disks

Mtron PRO Flash SSDs linear read at 120 megabytes per second, and linear write at 90 megabytes per second. The composite linear speed is faster than a 15,000 RPM SCSI disk. The MOBI product also has a random read rate of approximately >12,000 four kilobyte blocks per second. This is almost 60 times faster than a 15,000 RPM SAS drive. In our tests, the PRO random writes at about 130 four-kilobyte blocks a second. This is somewhat faster than the random write speed of a 10,000 RPM SATA drive. From a pure performance perspective, applications that are read intensive will see disk throughput nearly 30x the speed of a typical server hard drive. For update intensive applications, the Mtron PRO series performs somewhat better than a 15K SCSI drive. Combined with MFT, Mtron PRO series drives random write at ~20,000 4K IOPS or over 100 times faster than the bare drive, producing a drive normally 50x better than a 15k rpm SAS drive in normal use.

Mtron PRO drives are manufactured using high-reliability single-level chip Flash technology, are made with an extremely rugged machined metal case, and come with a 5 year warranty commencing from date-of-manufacture. PRO drives are available in both a 2.5 inch form factor suitable for most laptops, and a 3.5 inch form factor suitable for desktops and servers.

When the PRO-7000 is wedded with MFT, its performance and projected wear life increase dramatically. MFT improves typical random read and write IOPS performance by 16 times, while enhancing the projected random write life of the product by at least 50-fold.

Mtron 2.5" PRO SATA Drives - 5 Year Warranty
Part Number Product Description Cap
GB
Format Size Flash
Type
Case
Type
Status Price
MSP-SATA7025-016 PRO-7000 16gb 16 SATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $421
MSP-SATA7035-016 PRO-7000 16gb 16

SATA

3.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $421
MSP-SATA7025-032 PRO-7000 32gb 32 SATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $689
MSP-SATA7035-032 PRO-7000 32gb 32 SATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $689
MSP-SATA7035-064 PRO-7000 64gb 64 SATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $1,214
MSP-PATA7025-016 PRO-7000 16gb 16 PATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $421
MSP-PATA7035-016 PRO-7000 16gb 16

PATA

3.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $421
MSP-PATA7025-032 PRO-7000 32gb 32 PATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $689
MSP-PATA7035-032 PRO-7000 32gb 32 PATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $689
MSP-PATA7035-064 PRO-7000 64gb 64 PATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $1,214
Mtron 2.5" PRO SATA Drives - 5 Year Warranty and MFT Server Edition
MFT increases PRO-7000 performance 16-fold and increases wear life more than 50-fold
Part Number Product Description Cap
GB
Format Size Flash
Type
Case
Type
Status Price
MFTS-SATA7025-016 PRO-7000 16gb with MFT Server 16 SATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $546
MFTS-SATA7035-016 PRO-7000 16gb with MFT Server 16

SATA

3.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $546
MFTS-SATA7025-032 PRO-7000 32gb with MFT Server 32 SATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $814
MFTS-SATA7035-032 PRO-7000 32gb with MFT Server 32 SATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $814
MFTS-SATA7035-064 PRO-7000 64gb with MFT Server 64 SATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Stocked $1,464
MFTS-PATA7025-016 PRO-7000 16gb with MFT Server 16 PATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $546
MFTS-PATA7035-016 PRO-7000 16gb with MFT Server 16

PATA

3.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $546
MFTS-PATA7025-032 PRO-7000 32gb with MFT Server 32 PATA 2.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $814
MFTS-PATA7035-032 PRO-7000 32gb with MFT Server 32 PATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $814
MFTS-PATA7035-064 PRO-7000 64gb with MFT Server 64 PATA 3.5" SLC Aluminum Sp-ord $1,464

The following graph shows the throughput of the PRO 7000 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. Note how, due to the high random read speed, even a PRO drive without MFT outperforms a 15,000 rpm SAS drive.

PRO 7000 Performance Graph

The following table demonstrates the point that the random read rate of a PRO 7000 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 PRO's random read is literally 140 times faster than that of a Laptop hard drive. But the table also shows that the Mobi's native random write capability is literally as much as 80 times slower than its random read. The table also shows how MFT's linear method of random writing improves random write speed beyond the random read rate.

Mtron PRO 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 10,337 40.3M 13,223 51.6M 123 493.5K 123 495.5K 14,998 58.5M 16,180 63.2M
8k 7,851 61.3M 9,417 73.5M 124 996.7K 124 994.3K 7,992 62.4M 8,717 68.1M
16k 5,168 80.7M 5,839 91.2M 120 1932.7k 128 2.0M 4,293 67.0M 4,496 70.2M
32k 3,075 96.0M 3,316 103.6M 125 3.9M 127 3.9M 2,228 69.6M 2,269 70.9M
64k 1,696 106.0M 1,779 111.2M 121 7.6M 124 7.7M 1,116 69.7M 1,117 73.1M
256k 444 111.1M 450 112.6M 100 25.0K 101 25.3M 281 70.2M 306 76.5M
1mb 113 113.3M 113 113.8M 70 70.5M     70 70.1M    
Aggregate IOPS without MFT 392 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 6,527
MFT Overall Performance Multiplier 16

The following graph shows the projected daily erase life capability based upon data size written. Clearly, when MFT enabled, the PRO 7000 can accept more than fifteen overwrites 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 PRO 7000 is an ideal solution for a broad spectrum of Servers and Workstations.

Mobi-1000 Wear

The following table compares the PRO 7000 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 PRO 7000 is just a lot faster than hard disks.

Mtron PRO-7000 Random Writes Permissible for 5-Year Drive Life
  7,200 rpm
SATA HDD
15,000 rpm
SAS HDD
16gb
Drive
32gb
Drive
64gb
Drive
128gb
Drive
Maximum write throughput per day without MFT 19GB 69GB 4.7GB 9.3GB 18.7GB 37.1GB
Maximum write throughput per day with MFT n/a n/a 262GB 524GB 1,046GB 2,093GB
Hours per day needed to finish read/write activity 24.00 24.00 1.04 2.08 4.16 8.33
Drive Utilization Percentage 100% 100% 4% 9% 17% 35%
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.
Mtron PRO Technical Specification
PRO 7025 Series  Host Interface  Interface SATA 1.0a Standard
Transfer Mode PIO mode (0~4), DMA mode (0~2), Ultra DMA mode(0~6)
 Capacity (GB)  16, 32(GB)
 Form Factor  2.5"
 Performance  Average Access Time*  0.1 msec
Sustained Read**  120 MB/sec
Sustained Write**  90 MB/sec
IOPS*** (Sequential/ Random)  81,000/18,000
 Power  Input Voltage 5VCC±5%
 Endurance  Write Endurance  >140 years @ 50GB write per day****
Read Endurance  Unlimited
Wear-leveling algorithm  Dynamic and static wear-leveling
Data Retention  10 years at 25℃
 Reliability  MTBF  1,000,000 hours
ECC  7-bit Error Correction Code (ECC)
Bad Block Management algorithm  
 Environment  Operating Temperature 0~70℃
 Test Environment  1. Test Item : MSP-SATA7025 ( 2.5 , 32GB, SATA1 )
2. Test PC : AMD Athlon™ 4800+ Dual Core (2.4GHz) 1GB RAM, NVIDIA nForce 570 Ultra MCP (UDMA133/SATA2), Window XP SP2
* HD Tach 3.0.1
** ATTO Disk benchmark 2.02
*** IOMeter July 30. 2004
**** Sequential Write, 32GB Mtron SSD