SANBlaze Technology Inc., a leading worldwide provider of advanced storage test and validation technologies, today announced the availability of the industry’s first platform to support NVMe® over PCIe® Gen5 validation and compliance testing. The SBExpress-RM5™ platform provides broad test capabilities for development, QA, validation, and manufacturing teams, and includes the company’s Certified by SANBlaze (SBCert™) compliance test suite, widely recognized as an industry benchmark.
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SANBlaze SBExpress-RM5 NVMe SSD Test System (Photo: Business Wire)
The SBExpress-RM5 is a 16-bay enterprise-class NVMe test appliance supporting hot-plug and PCIe speeds from Gen1 to Gen5. The system features a unique modular “riser” design that enables user-configurable variable slot support, as well as field-upgradable support for all Gen5 connector form factors, including U.2, M.2, EDSFF, and the new E3/EDSFF form factor.
The ability to margin and measure power, glitch signals, and test spread spectrum clocking (SSC) or conventional clocking in both common and SRIS/SRNS modes sets the SBExpress-RM5 apart from all others in the NVMe SSD testing space. Data integrity is verified with a comprehensive suite of read/write/compare tests, with exception cases such as power glitching while running IO, and built-in “Write Atomicity” testing as part of the Certified by SANBlaze test suite. Testing is accessible through a web interface to the appliance or via Python, XML and REST APIs, which come standard with the system. The SBExpress™ Gen5 software includes over nine-hundred test scripts to enable IOL testing in the customer’s lab, before undergoing official testing, as well as ZNS, VDM, and TCG Opal verification.
Strategic Industry Collaboration Accelerates Time-to-Market
The release of the SBExpress-RM5 marks the first major product introduction by SANBlaze in collaboration with SerialTek and Ellisys, two companies specialized in advanced protocol test solutions for storage, data centers, consumer electronics, and IoT technologies. This collaboration helped SANBlaze shorten its SBExpress-RM5 time to market with additional resources and know-how, markedly compressing the development cycle for this industry-first delivery. This inter-company symbiosis will accelerate innovation and lead to new unique capabilities and synergies that greatly benefit SANBlaze customers.
“SANBlaze is pleased to announce the industry’s first NVMe over PCIe Gen5 test system, extending the leadership position of our Certified by SANBlaze automated test suite to Gen5 architecture,” said Vince Asbridge, CEO of SANBlaze. “Leveraging the Gen5 expertise of SerialTek significantly reduced our time to market and enabled early access to state-of-the art tools, such as SerialTek’s innovative Kodiak™ Gen5 PCIe analyzer, which we used to expedite our testing to ensure the SBExpress-RM5 system meets the protocol and rigorous signal integrity requirements of PCIe Gen5.”
“The partnership between SerialTek and SANBlaze has been a huge benefit to both companies, combining the NVMe expertise of the SANBlaze team with the PCIe and signal integrity leadership of the SerialTek team,” said Paul Mutschler, CEO of SerialTek. “Combining the talents of these two world-class engineering teams has accelerated the introduction of both the SBExpress-RM5 NVMe Gen5 test system and the Kodiak Gen5 PCIe analyzer, leading to a tightly integrated analysis and qualification platform for Gen5 and beyond.”
“We’re pleased to have the opportunity to partner with a quality organization like SANBlaze and to create the complementary and already-productive relationship with SerialTek,” said Mario Pasquali, President and CEO of Ellisys. “Our entire organization looks forward to a continuation of the SANBlaze tradition of quality product offerings and expert collaborations with their customer base, and the fantastic synergies that will greatly benefit all our customers.”
Availability, Configurations, and Pricing
A modular “riser” design allows each of the slots to support single- or dual-port NVMe drives. Each slot is switchable between dual- and single-port directly from the software for ease of testing both drive types in any configuration. All risers support power control and measurement with NVMe device configurations that include U.2, M.2 and EDSFF, including the new E3 EDSFF form factor.
For more information on availability, configurations, and pricing, please contact sales@sanblaze.com or visit www.sanblaze.com.
A high-resolution photo of the SBExpress-RM5 is available at https://www.sanblaze.com/sbexpress-rm5.
About SANBlaze
SANBlaze is a pioneer in storage testing and validation technologies. SANBlaze systems are deployed in the test and development labs of most major storage hardware and software vendors worldwide. SANBlaze is revolutionizing the NVMe Storage Area Network (SAN) and PCIe device qualification markets by offering NVMe testing end-to-end. We are first to market a solution that tests Native NVMe and NVMe over Fabrics (NVMe-oF™) for complete end-to-end testing of your entire system using single port or dual port drives. More information is available on www.sanblaze.com.
About SerialTek
SerialTek is a provider of innovative data storage test tools and solutions since 2007. Many leading storage manufacturers depend on our products to improve product quality and drive time-to-market requirements. The company was founded with the goal of making test and measurement solutions more powerful and fast yet easier to use. SerialTek’s engineers include the original inventors of many of the popular features found in protocol analyzers, including hardware indexing during capture, buffer segmentation with auto-re-arm, ultra-fast histograms, and multiple trigger sequencers. SerialTek solutions support the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS), SATA (Serial ATA), PCIe, and NVMe protocols. More information is available on www.serialtek.com.
About Ellisys
Ellisys is a leading worldwide supplier of advanced protocol test solutions for Bluetooth, Wi-Fi®, 802.15.4, USB 2.0, SuperSpeed USB 3.1, USB Power Delivery, USB Type-C®, DisplayPort™, and Thunderbolt™. More information is available on www.ellisys.com.
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