The Samsung Enterprise SSD is optimized for both performance and power savings. Gigabytes per dollar is no longer the most important metric. To assess TCO and “green” impact, experts now look at comparative IOPS/$, IOPS/W and GB/W to get the clearest picture.

CIOs and IT managers are under pressure to improve data center performance in an era when cutting expenses is paramount. Samsung’s Enterprise Solid State Drive (SSD) provides the most effective way of reducing space, hardware requirements, power needs and other data center costs. Its low Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) reflects its advantages over hard drives when it comes to maintenance, repairs, electricity and other ownership costs.

This performance-optimized, all-flash storage device utilizes SLC NAND flash designed for fast, frequent access to give the highest performance in realworld enterprise workloads. Samsung’s SSD is a SATA 3Gb/second device and enables reliable 24x7 performance.

Compared to traditional enterprise-class hard drives, Samsung’s 2.5-inch enterprise SSD achieves several important improvements. Based on the IOMeter File Server benchmark, the flash drive had an average of 11 times better performance than several of the fastest 10K and 15K rpm SAS, SCSI and Fibre-Channel HDDs. As reported by leading server vendors, the SSD offers significantly better reliability and dramatically reduces power requirements — using 98% less energy in one vendor’s test.

With its performance and power advantages, Samsung’s enterprise SSD can benefit a wide range of I/O storage applications such as video on demand, web serving, OLTP and more. For video-on-demand applications, a leading OEM said SSDs realize 70% power savings while cutting pace requirements by 80% compared to HDDs. For web serving, one vendor’s test showed that Samsung SSDs deliver 25% better reliability while using less than one quarter the amount of power compared to 2.5-inch SAS HDDs. In addition, the flash drives achieved nearly 10 times better performance.

Virtualization is another promising area for SSDs. Today, the average server utilization is less than 30%. However, Samsung’s SSD is enabling leading OEMs to produce virtualized servers and virtualized storage to affordably eliminate data-center performance bottlenecks. Critical for virtualized storage is the ability of the Samsung Enterprise SSD to keep the storage sub-system from starving data-center performance. CIOs face data-center charge-back costs based on square footage and the amount of power consumed. Samsung’s SSD provides relief via significantly higher performance per watt with a very low heat load on the air-conditioning system.

Samsung is Member of The Green Grid, a global consortium dedicated to advancing energy efficiency in data centers and business computing ecosystems.

Among the SSDs on the market, Samsung’s Enterprise SSD is superior, incorporating ground-breaking new technology to improve write endurance and write performance beyond that achieved by other flash drives. The result is maximized improvements to the data center.