HI GIO Cloud’s infrastructure pioneers use storage technology on the NVMe platform with very high IOPS speeds; therefore, it can allocate up to 60,000 IOPS to customers, ensuring performance for the most complex tasks and requirements.
Storage formats are improving as organizations invest in the digital transformation of businesses with huge amounts of data. Until now, SATA (supporting SSDs and spinning hard drives) has been the dominant protocol. But with the rise of fast, non-volatile memory, the world is shifting towards a new type of technology – NVMe.
NVMe is “Non-Volatile Memory Express,” a memory access and transfer protocol for SSD hard drives launched in 2013. They do not use SATA slots (with AHCI protocol) like a traditional SATA SSD that takes advantage of the high bandwidth of the PCIe slot to provide superior storage capacity, data transfer speeds, and compatibility. Although the SATA protocol is available in SSDs and HDDs, NVMe is specifically designed for SSDs. Therefore, the performance difference between SATA and NVMe is very impressive.
They will have many advantages over older-generation SSDs. Some outstanding advantages can be mentioned as follows:
- Increase data access speed: PCIe slot transfers 25 times more data than SATA. This helps businesses access data more quickly and effectively, helping to increase productivity and save working time.
- Increase data processing capacity: NVMe sends commands 2 times faster than AHCI. NVMe I/O operations per second exceed 1 million and are 900% faster than AHCI.
- Outstanding compatibility: NVMe hard drives work with all major operating systems regardless of size.
Some applications of NVMe in organizations and specialized tasks:
+ Industries such as healthcare, finance, and telecommunications depend on ultra-fast computers with high performance and low latency. Healthcare and telecommunications companies leverage NVMe’s speed for fast and complex jobs because the protocol virtually eliminates processor latency when reading data from storage devices.
+ NVMe allows administrators to optimize virtualization environments by increasing the number of virtual machines that the virtual network can support. Typically, virtualized environments must segment the network by workload, latency, and IOPS. This can lead to expensive costs and a larger workload to manage. NVMe is intentionally designed to manage clusters and optimize job performance, allowing virtualized environments to increase network speed and performance without complex partitions.
+ Post-production of 4K video or rendering of 3D graphics using ray tracing techniques. For smooth and fast graphics rendering performance when editing and manipulating video images, you must move large amounts of data back and forth in uncompressed form. These processes can be delayed by many factors – for example, insufficient RAM – but these computing tasks are increasingly exceeding the processing capacity of a spinning hard drive, and with the amount of data increasing exponentially, even Solid State Drives (SSDs) are having difficulty. The new generation of NVMe drives uses the PCIe 4.0 standard to read, write, and move data back and forth. This standard has many times the data throughput bandwidth of the fastest SATA drives.
AI is a term that covers a wide variety of computing tasks, many of which rely on machine learning. What AI computing modes have in common is that they all take advantage of large amounts of data to operate. Once again, NVMe is the technology that makes a big difference in making things light and smooth.
The adoption of NVMe technology is becoming the new standard for servers in data centers and client devices such as laptops, desktops, and even next-generation gaming consoles. Source: Kingston
