New Samsung Enterprise SSDs for High-performance Applications Enable Low Power Consumption and High IOPS Rates

ESCHBORN, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today that it is now mass producing 25 and 50 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSDs) for performance-optimized server applications such as video on demand, web serving and on-line transaction processing.

“The Samsung SSDs give IT managers the best in high-performance, high-endurance storage for servers, with markedly less energy consumption”

Designed specifically for the enterprise market, the new Samsung single-level-cell (SLC) SSDs have about twice the random write performance of its standard 32GB and 64GB SLC SSDs.

Delivering the "greenest" storage solution for data centers today, Samsung's enterprises SSDs use 1.25 watts of power in active mode and 0.3 watts in idle mode. They consume less than 25 percent of the power of a 2.5-inch 15K SAS HDD, and provide the lowest possible heat load on a data center air conditioning system. In recent 'green computing' campaigns, servers with high-rpm HDD solutions have come under scrutiny for heavy power consumption.

"The Samsung SSDs give IT managers the best in high-performance, high-endurance storage for servers, with markedly less energy consumption," said Gerd Schauss, Director memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor Europe. "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," he added.

Available in a 2.5-inch interface, Samsung's Enterprise SSDs provide significantly higher performance per watt than conventional 10K and 15K rpm HDDs. The drives process 100 times the number of IOPS per watt as a typical 15K 2.5-inch SAS HDD and five times the number of IOPS per dollar as a 10K 2.5-inch SCSI HDD.

The new performance-optimized Samsung Enterprise SSDs can process IOPS (input/output per second) up to 10 times faster than the fastest 15K rpm SAS HDD available for transactional data workloads, with the precise amount of performance improvement depending upon the specific application.

The SATA 3Gb/s drives read data sequentially at 100MB per second and write it at 80MB/s. They are available worldwide beginning this month.

About Samsung Semiconductor Europe

Samsung Semiconductor Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. Seoul, Korea, is headquartered in Eschborn near Frankfurt/Main, Germany and London, UK with sales offices all over Europe. The two European headquarters are handling the marketing and sales activities of semiconductors, TFT LCD panels in Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA). In addition, the marketing and sales activities of Rotating Memories (Hard Disk Drives and Optical Storage Solutions) for the DACH region (Germany, Austria and Switzerland) and UK are handled there.

For more information, please visit www.samsungsemi.eu.

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2007 consolidated sales of US$105 billion. Employing approximately 150,000 people in 134 offices in 62 countries, the company consists of four main business units: Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business, and Telecommunication Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit www.samsung.com.

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