Over the last two weeks the world has witnessed an

impressive array of athletic accomplishments including 27

world records broken. Over the centuries, athletic world

records have been improved and broken incrementally.

The same can be said for storage technology. Until now.

As flash memory transforms the enterprise By breaking

technology barriers, take a look at the super-human

athletic feats that could be achieved if the World’s Greatest

Games had similar breakthroughs.

It takes 40 shelves of disk to do 1 million IOPS, but

only one shelf of flash. Thant’s equal to lifting a double

decker bus (23,200 lbs.) or 40 times the Clean and

Jerk Olympic Record.1

Performance Density

Latency with flash is 53 times

faster than with disk. If the current

Olympic record for the 50 meters (1

length of an Olympic-sized pool)

freestyle is 21.30 seconds, a flash

athlete would swim 53 laps in the

same amount of time.2

Speed

Database performance is 15 times faster with

flash than with disk. Usain Bolt holds the

current 100 meter record of 9.63 seconds. On

disk, he would only run 6.67 meters in the same

time.3

Reliability / Time

Flash requires 1/5th the power and cooling

required by disk. If Kenenisa Bekele, record

holder in the men’s 5,000 meter run, was as

efficient as flash, he could run his gold medal time

and only burn 70 calories (rather than the 350

calories he would normally burn) – the same

energy required just to walk across London’s

Tower Bridge (244 meters).4

Energy Efficiency

Flash needs 1/10th the amount of space

compared to disk. That’s equivalent to fitting all

of the spectators at the Olympics (800,000 people)

into the Olympic Stadium (80,000 people).5

Capacity

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clean_and_Jerk

http://www.london2012.com/weighlifting/about/

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20071023013647AAhbMHd

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/11_tons_equal_to_how_many_pounds

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Olymic_records_in_swimming

3. http://wwwdatabaseopympics.com/sport/sportevent/htm?enum=110&sp=ATH

4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5000_metres

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/wonder/structure/tower/html

5. http://www/stravelblackboard/us/article/101281/london-olympics-set-to-draw-800000-

spectators

http://www.ona.gov.uk/ona/rel/regional-trends/region-and-country-profiles/population-and-

migration/population-and-migration---london.html

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