Sangfor aStor All-Flash Unified Storage (EDS)

Advanced Features & Value Propositions

Ultimate High Performance

Ease of Use & Intelligence

Enhanced Security & Reliability

Extreme Throughput: A single all-flash unit delivers up to 122GB/s read throughput and 37GB/s write throughput.
Million-Level IOPS: Capable of over 1 million IOPS (1,010,000 IOPS for SAN 8K Read), ensuring data flows as fast as your applications require.
Ultra-Low Latency: Through end-to-end NVMe optimization and a streamlined protocol stack (reducing interactions from 4 to 2), aStor achieves latency as low as 100µs, ideal for latency-sensitive databases.
AI Acceleration: Features like GDS (GPU Direct Storage) and NFS+ over RDMA bypass CPU bottlenecks, delivering data directly to GPUs to maximize utilization during AI training and inference.

Unified Data Governance: Sangfor aStor All Flash intelligently manages hot and cold data. Hot data resides on high-performance NVMe flash, while cooling data automatically tiers to capacity-optimized hybrid flash or NAS.
Efficient Block-Level Tiering: Unlike file-based tiering, Sangfor aStor All Flash uses block-based tiering (64MB chunks). This improves tiering efficiency by 40% and minimizes performance impact, retaining read cache even after data is flushed to cold tiers.
Global Namespace: Users access data through a single unified view, regardless of whether the data is on the local all-flash cluster, a hybrid cluster, or the cloud.

99.9999% Reliability: A multi-level reliability framework ensures 6-nines availability, guaranteeing business continuity.
AI-Driven Ransomware Protection: Built-in AI engines based on the Engine Zero model detect abnormal file I/O behaviors in real-time. If ransomware is detected, the system triggers secure snapshots to protect data and can automatically intercept malicious access.
Native Data Protection: Comprehensive features include WORM (Write Once, Read Many) for compliance, Recycle Bin for accidental deletion recovery, and continuous end-to-end data integrity checks.
Fast Recovery: In the event of a single controller failure, services recover within 10 seconds. Even with consecutive drive failures, I/O interruption is limited to 1 second, ensuring zero disruption.

Ultimate High Performance

Extreme Throughput: A single all-flash unit delivers up to 122GB/s read throughput and 37GB/s write throughput.
Million-Level IOPS: Capable of over 1 million IOPS (1,010,000 IOPS for SAN 8K Read), ensuring data flows as fast as your applications require.
Ultra-Low Latency: Through end-to-end NVMe optimization and a streamlined protocol stack (reducing interactions from 4 to 2), aStor achieves latency as low as 100µs, ideal for latency-sensitive databases.
AI Acceleration: Features like GDS (GPU Direct Storage) and NFS+ over RDMA bypass CPU bottlenecks, delivering data directly to GPUs to maximize utilization during AI training and inference.

Ease of Use & Intelligence

Unified Data Governance: Sangfor aStor All Flash intelligently manages hot and cold data. Hot data resides on high-performance NVMe flash, while cooling data automatically tiers to capacity-optimized hybrid flash or NAS.
Efficient Block-Level Tiering: Unlike file-based tiering, Sangfor aStor All Flash uses block-based tiering (64MB chunks). This improves tiering efficiency by 40% and minimizes performance impact, retaining read cache even after data is flushed to cold tiers.
Global Namespace: Users access data through a single unified view, regardless of whether the data is on the local all-flash cluster, a hybrid cluster, or the cloud.

Enhanced Security & Reliability

99.9999% Reliability: A multi-level reliability framework ensures 6-nines availability, guaranteeing business continuity.
AI-Driven Ransomware Protection: Built-in AI engines based on the Engine Zero model detect abnormal file I/O behaviors in real-time. If ransomware is detected, the system triggers secure snapshots to protect data and can automatically intercept malicious access.
Native Data Protection: Comprehensive features include WORM (Write Once, Read Many) for compliance, Recycle Bin for accidental deletion recovery, and continuous end-to-end data integrity checks.
Fast Recovery: In the event of a single controller failure, services recover within 10 seconds. Even with consecutive drive failures, I/O interruption is limited to 1 second, ensuring zero disruption.

Target Use Cases: aStor All Flash

AI Data Training (Autonomous Driving/LLM)

Accelerates the entire AI pipeline. From high-speed checkpoint writing (up to 40GB/s) to rapid data loading for training sets, Sangfor aStor All Flash keeps expensive GPUs fully utilized. Features like data preheating load training sets from cold tiers to flash before jobs start to prevent idle time.

Healthcare (PACS & Pathology)

Delivers the high throughput required for loading massive medical images and pathology slides instantly. It supports mixed workloads of small and large files, ensuring rapid retrieval for diagnostic efficiency while offering cost-effective large-capacity storage for archiving.

High-Tech Electronics Manufacturing (EDA)

EDA Chip Design: Accelerates the chip design cycle by handling the massive concurrency of millions of small files generated during simulations. Its high OPS capabilities prevent storage bottlenecks during intense verification phases.

High-Tech Electronics Manufacturing (AOI)

AOI Quality Inspection: Supports stable, high-throughput writing of uncompressed images (RAW/BMP) from production lines, ensuring zero frame loss. Intelligent data tiering automatically moves older inspection logs and images to lower-cost storage, significantly reducing retention costs.

Entertainment (8K Post-Production)

Provides stable, high-bandwidth streams for 8K video editing and rendering. It supports collaborative non-linear editing (NLE) across Mac/Linux/Windows workstations with consistently high read speeds (exceeding 15GB/s in tested scenarios).

Government (Satellite & Aerial Imaging)

Supports the high-concurrency demands of GIS applications, such as oblique photography and remote sensing. The system handles massive small file access for rapid rendering and processing of terabytes of geospatial data.