Samsung's Solid State Drives Selected for HP ProLiant Servers

 Semiconductor technology specialist Samsung Electronics reportedly announced that its 60 gigabyte and 120 gigabyte solid state drives have been selected for use as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as select ProLiant G5 servers.

 

Solid state drive technology continues to gain mass market appeal because of their performance and energy efficiency. Samsung (News - Alert) envisions that its SSDs will prove to be the high-speed alternative to traditional hard disk drives.

 

“Using SSDs as the primary storage medium in enterprise servers will provide optimal value for data centers, with their exceptional low-power attributes, long-term reliability and outstanding performance,” said Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, in a statement.

 

The portfolio of HP ProLiant rack, tower and blade servers offers a complete SSD storage option for enterprises. The latest HP ProLiant G6 server platforms were designed to support virtualized environments that require significant memory, data storage and network connections to optimize server performance.

 

HP chose Samsung’s green SSD servers considering its ability to minimize power consumption. This increased value proposition will let corporations address looming federal regulations on server energy usage levels, while lowering the total cost of server ownership, officials said.

 

Compared to HDD storage, SSD offers several benefits. Samsung’s SSDs allow HP’s data center customers to free up a significant amount of physical space, which can then be allocated for additional DRAM capacity, further improving system performance. Depending upon the application, a single Samsung SSD can replace between four and 40 15K HDDs in a server array.

 

Samsung SSD executes random read commands at 25,000 input/outputs per second and random writes at 6000 IOPS. It has a sequential read speed of 230 megabytes per second) and a sequential write speed of 180MB/s.

 

It is reported that by using single-level-cell 3Gb/s SATA SSDs instead of 10K and 15K rpm hard disk drives HP ProLiant servers cut power drain and provide high performance, low latency solutions that can be up to 40 to 50 times faster than a traditional hard drive depending upon the application and computing workload.

 

Samsung SSDs in HP ProLiant servers consume a miniscule 1.9 watts when writing to the drive and 1.5 watts when reading to it. This is almost one-fifth of the energy usage in a conventional enterprise hard drive. Power usage in idle mode is 0.1 watt.

 

“Customers demand fast, energy efficient servers that enable them to do more with less, cutting the costs associated with running their data centers,” said Jim Ganthier, vice president of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP, in a statement. “Samsung’s latest SSD technology coupled with HP ProLiant servers delivers energy efficient server platforms to enable customers to slash their power usage and reduce costs.”

 

In other news, Samsung Electronics recently announced that it is targeting the PC gaming industry with its high-performance 256-GB SSD, which delivers lightning-fast processing power for a superior PC gaming experience.