Case Study: University College London achieves 50x faster data throughput with iXsystems TrueNAS

University of College London - Customer Case Study

The Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL) at University College London, a world-leading space research group, faced significant challenges with an aging and unreliable clustered SAN storage system. The setup suffered from performance degradation, high latency, and a critical risk of data loss that impacted backups and business continuity. MSSL sought a high-performance, scalable, and resilient commercial storage solution, leading them to the TrueNAS product from vendor iXsystems.

iXsystems provided MSSL with a TrueNAS High Availability Unified Storage Appliance built on the OpenZFS file system. The solution delivered dramatically improved data integrity, performance, and scalability. The results were immediate and substantial, with MSSL experiencing a real-world improvement in simultaneous data throughput by up to 50 times and gaining the headroom to scale its storage capacity to multiple petabytes.

University of College London

Alan Brown

Networking and Unix Systems Manager