The S1:All-Flash Array.next is the world’s first Optane Array. It enables enterprises of all sizes to take full advantage of Intel®’s Optane™ technology. It uses Optane™ as storage, not as cache, providing terabytes of high performance, reads and writes to improve the response time of every application connected to it. Our lab report provides an overview of the Optane Array solution and details on how S1:AFA.next, using midrange servers, can deliver over 1 million read IOPS with just three Optane™ drives and sustain over 300k write IOPS while under heavy load.