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Samsung announces 100GB SSD for servers
NUMBER ONE Korean electronics conglomerate Samsung announced a 100GB SSD on Tuesday that's aimed at highly demanding server applications such as online transaction processing and on-demand media streaming.
Unveiled at the Storage Vision 2009 Conference in Las Vegas, Samsung's model SS805 2.5-inch, single-level cell (SLC) solid state drive (SSD) can replace existing server grade 15,000 RPM serial attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drives with order-of-magnitude faster performance, the company claims.
Samsung's SS805 SSD offers maximum sequential speeds of 230MB per second reading and 180MB per second writing. It has an eight-channel controller with more advanced NAND flash memory and better firmware than previous generation SSDs, Samsung says.
The SSD consumes 1.9 watts when active and 0.6 watt at idle, compared with typical 15,000 RPM HDD power draws of eight to 15 watts active and one to two watts idling, according to the company. The drive also features a non-volatile cache to prevent data loss during write operations due to sudden power loss.
The SS805 100GB SSD will be available this quarter. Samsung did not release pricing. µ
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Solid state is brilliant, but you can't avoid the FACT that it has limited write cycles and so is not suited to a lot of server uses. I've worn out several memory sticks and SD cards and although I'd imagine an expensive SSD like this has more write cycles, the limits of physics are still in place. A read only server would really benefit from this though.
These are demos that draw writers, Msr. Magee wrote negative article on SSD yesterday, while myself was being held for questioning. Did You Know Waitresses Give Out FREE Drinks? Burp....Feel DooDoo level on SSD is LOW.Although Perhaps Useful on Toilet as Unique Designer item?, Eh?Its Proton Analyer Chick Told Me.Really We Can See SSD with various Memory Solutions is Name of Game Today, Particularly R.A.I.D.5 Capable SSD or even more sophisticated DDR memories in ?Constant ON State...TS Drashek