Intel SSD: New Choice for Radio and TV Users

In the past, because of the limitations of technology, users of radio and television have been using traditional mechanical hard disks as their important storage medium. However, with the innovation of broadcasting and television user services, the problems of traditional storage systems are gradually exposed. Traditional enterprise-grade mechanical hard disks, whether they use SATA or SAS interfaces, have certain advantages in terms of storage capacity, but they cannot meet the new requirements of users of broadcasting and TV in the new environment in terms of I/O capability, reliability, and durability. Users will make new choices in storage.

“The first application to the SSD was the Internet, mainly in search and CDN, and then gradually expanded to databases, online transactions, etc. In terms of content search and distribution, the Internet and broadcasters are similar. However, users of broadcasting and television have demanded a higher level, the original search was a text search, and now it was a video search, and the original distribution was text distribution or picture distribution, and now is the distribution of high-definition video streams. If the Internet needs to use SSDs to improve performance, then The field of broadcasting and TV is even more needed,” said Liu Gang, general manager of Intel’s online business unit at China (China) Co., Ltd., at the second CCBN cable digital TV operator international summit.

In response to the demand of ArcSoft Technology in the optimization of cloud transcoding, Intel provided a PCIe P3700 series SSD solution based on the NVMe protocol. The single Intel P3700 series can meet the concurrent concurrent read and write requirements of Hongxing's 40 channels of high-definition video data, thereby significantly improving the overall system performance. The deployment of the Intel SSD DC S3700 series helped Gehua to achieve a rapid build of cloud storage service infrastructure and more extensive data storage, management and protection functions. The Intel Solid-State Drive DC S3500 series has provided guarantees for the Huada Group to improve the effectiveness of video streaming services, break through the bottleneck of disks, and reduce deployment costs, so that the needs of video service companies can be truly satisfied.

When talking about the total cost of ownership of SSDs, Liu Gang gave an example to reporters: “In terms of transcoding video streaming or video streaming, its cost needs are not the purchase cost of each disk, but each The cost of supporting a video stream.From this perspective, the cost of the SSD is lower, because the SSD is faster and has a shorter delay time, so it can support more video streams.The traditional hard disk costs the highest, followed by The solid state disk with SATA interface, the best cost-effectiveness is the PCIe interface solid-state disk.In the future, the cost of solid-state disk will be further reduced.For example, today's 2D NAND technology is equivalent to the cottage, the future of 3D NAND technology is equivalent to the building Floors can reach 32 levels. Will the cost of semiconductor materials increase by a few dozens of times before they increase significantly? Obviously not. However, the cost per unit of storage capacity can be significantly reduced because the density increases a lot."

In addition to the speed of the SSD itself, the interface is also decisive for the performance of the SSD. "When I said that the entire SSD product was going to be PCIe, it was important that this was not PCIe in general. The PCIe SSD based on the standard NVMe protocol is the development trend, so we participate in and support NVMe. PCIe SSD.” Liu Gang emphasized the importance of NVMe.