As a CIO looking to get the most our of their Flash Storage buy, Hardware Compression is important to help you economically expand the useful capacity of of your Storage Array, be it HCI or DAS attached or, part of each Data Center’s SAN Array.

So what compression to choose: onboard per SSD drive compression or;  system in memory compression where the latter’s system cost of compression is amortized across all drives in the storage system?

Also CIO’s need to consider how much the write speed will slow down while the drive uses their on board compression hardware to write data to the media. Not all SSDs with hardware compression have the same write speed capabilities, they vary between vendors.

CIOs, when choosing NVME or SATA drives with Hardware Compression  embedded with the Flash Translation Layers  into each drive know these SSDs are 2X more expensive versus a drive without built-in hardware compression.

Conversely, a software solution per system that makes use of existing Intel or AMD built-in hardware data compression does consume additional CPU cores/threads and RAM, where the amount of system resources used depends on the compression percentage amount desired and the type of data being compressed, images, videos or straight ascii test data. The additional CPU clock cycle and RAM overhead cost is then amortized across the 50% cheaper SSDs without built in hardware compression per drive.

That said, TurboStorage is the only Linux based System Hardware Data Compression Solution which can amortize the additional resource cost of hardware data compression effectively across all drives in the system while still maintaining low 2X lower Write Amp while still delivering 2X or more faster write speeds.

The patented reason TurboStorage has this unique market advantage is the implementation of  Data Linearization  in memory, which is then passed to the in memory Flash Translation Layer control in memory for writes across all drives in the system, performing the system  hardware compression of these organized writes from Linux Kernel space.

As such, TurboStorage uniquely enables the CIO to support 40% less costly hardware data compression at the system level than any other Flash compression offer, enabling the CIO to use 50% less expensive Flash drives to capture huge capital expenditure savings.

TurboStorage’s patented in-memory Linearization of Data, combined with Intel or AMD system hardware compression and TurboStorage’s patented 2X less Write Amplification, is the only Linux ‘in memory’ Flash Translation Layer ‘FTL’ solution which implements lower cost storage system hardware data compression, as provided by Intel or AMD.

As such, TurboStorage’s Fast Data Management Software for Linux makes economical use of additional system CPU core clock cycles and threads plus RAM to enable the 50% to 90% hardware data compression offered by Intel and AMD, to at least double a CIO’s Flash Storage capacity, will only reducing TurboStorage’s 2X Faster write speed by a approximately 1 to 2%, given the speed of today’s 64bit IA64 processors.

TurboStorage’s unique implementation of Intel or AMD system hardware compression saves the CIO an additional 40% to 50% in capital expenditure savings  with minimal write speed degradation while preserving TurboStorage’s 2X better drive life advtange.

CIO’s implementing TurboStorage hardware compression will Finish First Every Time in the race garner more capital expenditure savings in their IT Infrastructures.