EMC takes Flash forward
EMC takes Flash forward
March 23, 2009:New 200GB and 400GB Flash drives have been unveiled for EMC Symmetrix DMX-4 storage systems, boosting applications requiring consistent, ultra-fast performance.
The new larger capacity drives will also be available on EMC CLARiiON midrange storage systems and EMC Celerra unified storage systems later in 2009.
As Enterprise Flash drives have become more popular and drive capacity has increased, the cost-per-gigabyte compared to traditional Fibre Channel disk drives has been reduced by 76 percent over the past year.
This has resulted in Enterprise Flash drives becoming an even more cost-effective option for highest-level “Tier 0” applications, enabling one fully utilized flash drive to deliver the same performance as numerous intentionally underutilized or “short stroked” mechanical drives. As a result, by reducing the overall number of drives in a system, power consumption-per-transaction can be reduced by up to 98 percent.
Barbara Robidoux, EMC Vice President, Storage Marketing, said, “It is clear that Enterprise Flash drives are revolutionising the way information is stored and EMC is leading the charge. We are delivering the second generation of this technology as a result of significant investments in research and development, testing and integration, while other vendors struggle to deliver their first flash drive offerings at much lower capacities.”