HP will take 3 par to all usb flash disk array

From HP statement of the literal meaning to see, it seems that the usb flash disk array storage strategic goal is to the StorServe (3 par InServ) disk storage array to pure usb flash disk array of promotion. This may mean that it will be released XtremIO products will face with Pure Storage, SolidFire and Whiptail etc startups and technology giant EMC competition, its TMS RamSan series products will face and IBM's competition. This strategy can work?

Last October, HP said: "HP 3 par is our solid state storage strategy direction." When we think, HP's strategy might include the extended 3 par array controller software, in order to better manage a solid hard disk resources. Now we believe it is almost certain.

Hewlett-packard has introduced a pure usb flash version of the 3 par P10000 InServ array, it compares the IOPS performance using the 1900 pieces of 300 gb of 15000 RPM hard disk P10000 model 800, although it USES the 512 pieces of solid-state hard disk, the price is only 70% of the latter.

3 par operating system focus on on hard disk storage data block, not included in the solid state disk storage data of other equipment. If you will flash on the data block only as the data on the flash block to deal with, not as a disk block data processing; Reduce the amount of data and write to delay usb flash disk life, then you can from pure usb flash disk array gain more performance and durability.

El Reg believe that HP is expanding its StorServ operation system to achieve this goal, so as to better the original storage resources as a usb flash disk to use, and at the same time, ready to use Memristor storage products.

HP storage director David Scott (David Scott) has issued a statement of support this idea. He told TechTarget interview said: "today we have to StoreServ pure solid hard drive solutions. In the future, we expect 3 par products will be seamless transfer to pure usb flash disk and nonvolatile storage." 3 par ASIC used a 16 KB page or data block, Scott said, this means that the usb flash disk capacity can be adjusted.