Hitachi to use Intel SSDs

HITACHI HAS SIGNED UP to use Intel's solid state drives in its high-end machines.

The beasts are made as part of an alliance between Chipzilla and Hitachi Global Storage Technologies. They will end up in Hitachi's in its high-end storage arrays.

However the first boxes designed by the partnership are not going to be around until 2010. 

In the meantime Hitachi said it will use SSDs from mysterious unknown vendor, probably STEC, in its high-end Universal Storage Platform V and VM storage arrays. These will be in the shops early next year and will ship with 73GB and 146GB flash-based SSDs.

The outfit said that it will do the same buying plans that it does with its conventional hard-drives.  In other words we can expect to see a lot of vendors involved in the mix even after the Hitachi GST flash-based SSD are available.

A spokesman for Hitachi said that the SSD market was still pretty tepid and was only now just starting to warm up.

The people who want the gear are high-end users seeking greater and faster application performance.

Hitachi uses the new drives to speed heavy I/O workload traffic required of high-performance enterprise storage software. This makes them ideal for online transaction processing, seismic data rendering and currency trading. µ

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