Swissbit makes its debut at CloudFest 2023

The star of the show will be the N4200 SSD series developed for data centre application profiles. Swissbit will hold a demo to illustrate how using SSDs optimised to a specific customer application environment improves efficiency at CloudFest in Europa-Park in Rust, Germany.

This came together with the support of the Swiss cloud service provider Infomaniak, which already relies on Swissbit’s SSDs. Visitors will also be able to learn more during a breakout session scheduled as part of the CloudFest agenda.

At the end of 2022, Swissbit entered the data centre market with the U.3 N4200 SSD, which offers a constant write speed that is two to five times higher compared to standard data center SSDs but still maintains a consistently low latency and high endurance over the SSD’s entire service life. While commercially available SSDs suffer drops in performance, endurance, and response time over prolonged periods, Swissbit takes a new approach with the N4200. The SSD can be optimised for specific application profiles using its unique firmware so that performance and endurance are matched to the real-world workload of a customer application.

Workload-specific Firmware Configurations

Customers can choose from predefined workload clusters in advance, including big data, video streaming, or machine learning, in addition to the default configuration. The N4200 has the ability to measure its workload during operation. Swissbit uses this measurement as a starting point to offer an additional option in the form of an workload analysis, together with the firmware configuration that has been optimised to meet the requirements of the customer application in question.

Swissbit developed this solution specifically to handle complex cloud applications, achieving a stable throughput and low latency under real-world customer workloads, without any host modifications.

The 2.5-inch U.3 SSD is based on enterprise grade 3D TLC NAND (eTLC), is backward compatible with U.2, and features a 4-lane PCIe interface to PCIe 4.0 specification for up to 8,000 MB/s bandwidth in both directions. The N4200 is available with storage capacities of 7.68 TB and 15.4 TB.