A.T. WORKS Implements Adaptec’s MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution

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Adaptec has announced that its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution has been implemented by A.T. WORKS, Inc., Japan’s premier Internet services provider and manager of the country’s largest server farm.

Adaptec has announced that its MaxIQ SSD Cache Performance Solution has been implemented by A.T. WORKS, Inc., Japans premier Internet services provider and manager of the countrys largest server farm.

According to a press release, A.T. WORKS was looking for an affordable solid state disk-based (SSD) Web and database server solution for those customers dissatisfied with performance offered by SATA or SAS-based hard disk drive (HDD) arrays. Adaptecs MaxIQ SSD provided an answer to their needs.

This solution is stated to be ideal for data centers running applications with high read operations such as Web serving, file serving, and databases.

To create high-performance hybrid arrays made of SSDs and HDDs, the A.T. WORKS solution uses customized Intel SSDs used as cache with Adaptec MaxIQ SSD Caching Software, plus Adaptec RAID 2405 and Adaptec RAID 5405 Unified Serial controllers.

Reportedly, th

e implementation of the Adaptec MaxIQ solution at A.T. Works doubled the performance of SATA HDD RAID 1 configurations with static Web pages, and significantly outperformed SAS HDD-only configurations with dynamic Web pages.

We had been looking for a cost effective way to add SSD components to our servers for quite awhile, but SSD capacity is less than that of an HDD and the relative cost per gigabyte is much higher. With Adaptec MaxIQ, weve been able to create a hybrid solution of SSDs and HDDs to meet growing customer demands for large capacity, high-performance storage solutions at an affordable price, said said Takuji Ikeda of A. T. WORKS Engineering Division.

With 9,000 hosted specialized servers, A.T. WORKS as to provide the best performance possible for its customers relies on Adaptec MaxIQ, and the included Adaptec Storage Manager, a centralized interface to enable, disable, and configure cache levels.