ScaleFlux carefully designed its controller ASIC and the drives to comply with the power constraints of the enterprise SSD form factors. By integrating the hardware compute engines directly into our ASIC, we avoid wasting board space or drive power moving data between multiple components. ScaleFlux drives typically operate within ~1W of other high-performance NVMe SSDs… but we get 2-4x the performance out of that extra 1W, making us vastly more efficient in terms of performance per watt.