Samsung Rolls Out 50GB Enterprise SSDs

By Greg McNevin

November 3, 2008: Samsung has announced that it is now mass producing 25 and 50 gigabyte solid state disks (SSDs) for the enterprise market saying the drives offer low power consumption and high IOPS rates.

Aimed at performance-optimised server applications such as video on demand, web serving and on-line transaction processing, Samsung claims that the new single-level-cell (SLC) SSDs have about twice the random write performance of its standard 32GB and 64GB SLC SSDs.

Samsung says its enterprise SSDs use 1.25 watts of power in active mode and 0.3 watts in idle mode, consume less than 25 percent of the power of a 2.5-inch 15K SAS HDD, and provide the lowest possible heat load on a data centre air conditioning system.

The company notes that ‘green computing’ campaigns and servers with high-rpm HDD solutions have come under scrutiny of late for heavy power consumption, and with this in mind it has dubbed its new line of SSDs the “greenest” storage solution currently available for data centres.

“Our SSDs give IT managers the best in high-performance, high-endurance storage for servers, with markedly less energy consumption,” said Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Now being considered by virtually all major PC OEMs, the proven technology of enterprise SSDs provides a compelling combination of price, performance and longevity for many medium-sized businesses as well as large corporations.”

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