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Samsung says its new SSDs are the greenest available

SSDs promise more to administrators of large high-demand servers than increased performance. The SSDs uses much less power than a comparable HDD and output less heat, which can reduce the cost of server room cooling.

Samsung announced its latest SSDs today that are designed specifically for the enterprise server market. The storage devices use Samsung single-level-cell (SLC) technology and promise twice the read/write performance of Samsung's standard 32GB and 64GB SLC SSDs.

The Samsung Enterprise SSDs promise to be the greenest drives on the market needing only 1.25 watts of power in active more and 0.3 watts in idle mode. Power consumption is less than 25% of the power needed by a 2.5-inch 15k SAS HDD.

Samsung VP of memory marketing Jim Elliott said in a statement, "Our SSDs give IT managers the best in high-performance, high-endurance storage for servers, with markedly less energy consumption. 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."

Samsung says that the new SLC SSDs offer sequential read speeds of 100MB per second and write speeds of 80MB/s. Performance in IOPS per watt for the SSDs compared to normal 15K SAS HDDs is 100 times greater. The new SLC SSDs will be available worldwide starting this month.

Samsung already has 128GB multi-level-cell SSDs in mass production and on the market. The MLC SSD has read speeds of 90MB/s and write speeds of 70MB/s.

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price?
By jjunos on 10/31/2008 1:39:04 PM , Rating: 2
and how do these compare to the intel ones?

though, more competition is a good thing in the long run :)




RE: price?
By nosfe on 10/31/2008 1:45:08 PM , Rating: 3
in the VERY long run, these are enterprise drives so they cost more than the organs and combined incomes of everyone in <subject hometown here>.


RE: price?
By Ender42 on 11/1/08, Rating: -1
RE: price?
By someguy123 on 10/31/2008 11:43:02 PM , Rating: 4
in the tech world no pricing announced = price is ridiculously high.


Weak
By therealnickdanger on 10/31/2008 2:03:53 PM , Rating: 2
Are they trying to compete from the "green" side of the fence because they can't touch Intel's new SSDs in performance? I'm curious, ultimately, how these compare with Intel's X-25E in price, performance, and power. Hopefully Anandtech does a comparo soon.




RE: Weak
By Levish on 10/31/2008 2:24:06 PM , Rating: 2
this is a SLC based drive, most of which perform favorably particularly in writes compared to any MLC drives


RE: Weak
By GeorgeH on 10/31/2008 2:46:32 PM , Rating: 2
RE: Weak
By therealnickdanger on 11/1/2008 11:29:20 AM , Rating: 2
Thank you.


Intel vs Samsung (be it MLC drives)
By RU482 on 10/31/2008 2:46:06 PM , Rating: 2
RE: Intel vs Samsung (be it MLC drives)
By Clauzii on 11/2/2008 4:00:22 AM , Rating: 2
The links are not working :(


By Visual on 11/3/2008 3:21:21 AM , Rating: 3
they are if you remove the referrer header from the request, by an appropriate browser setting or addon, or by typing the address manually

if you already opened it with the wrong referrer header and it got cached so typing it manually has no result - add a "?" to the end of the address


sloooooooww
By Baov on 10/31/2008 3:27:40 PM , Rating: 2
ONLY 100MB/s and 80MB/s???
Didn't the intel MLC have in the ~200 read and ~150 write???




RE: sloooooooww
By amanojaku on 11/1/2008 3:37:30 AM , Rating: 2
It's true that the read and write speeds are slow for sequential reads, but enterprise class drives aren't usually used for writing long streams of data like file servers. This will be beneficial for databases and application servers that have random I/O. The only problem is that if the price is too high (say, more than $400 for the 32GB) this won't be cost effective compared to SAS drives because of the tiny amount of space. Even SAS drives come in well over 100GB in size at $400 these days, and a database can have TBs of used storage.


RE: sloooooooww
By Clauzii on 11/2/2008 4:05:25 AM , Rating: 2
Since the Samsung drives also only uses half the amount of power (1.25W vs. 2.4W), it seems to be okay.


How can samsung even show their face around town...
By LTG on 10/31/2008 3:45:18 PM , Rating: 2
How can Samsung even show their face around town in announcing enterprise drives that are half the performance of the Intel enterprise drives?

These sammys might be cheaper than expected...




By vtohthree on 11/1/2008 9:49:32 PM , Rating: 2
I believe they are doing this because the power consumption reflects the performance.

Higher transfer speeds=higher energy consumption.

Hence these enterprise class drives are underwhelming in performance, yet rather frugal in consumption.


By thesandbender on 11/2/2008 11:22:15 AM , Rating: 2
Power is a huge problem for enterprise computing. Aside from the costs involved, many data centers have maxed out their available power. Upgrading a data centers power feed is a very expensive proposition. The last company I was at was looking at 2.5 million USD to upgrade one of their smaller DC's. At that point, you prefer more efficient devices... even if they are more expensive.


Take 2
By RU482 on 10/31/2008 2:53:06 PM , Rating: 2
error
By Ben on 11/1/2008 5:21:24 PM , Rating: 2
quote:
1.25 watts of power in active more


I believe this should read

quote:
1.25 watts of power in active mode




only 100MB/s ?
By alan328 on 11/2/2008 10:16:51 PM , Rating: 2
Well, doesn't sound that attractive....




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