Samsung Power-saving Solid State Drives Selected as Options for Wide Range of HP ProLiant Servers

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced semiconductor technology, announced today that its 60 and 120 gigabyte (GB) solid state drives (SSDs) have been selected for use as an option across the full range of HP ProLiant G6 servers, as well as select ProLiant G5 servers. This portfolio of HP ProLiant rack, tower and blade servers represents a full range of server solutions with SSD compatibility. The latest HP ProLiant G6 server platforms were designed to support virtualized environments that require significant memory, data storage and network connections to optimize server performance.

“Using SSDs as the primary storage medium in enterprise servers will provide optimal value for data centers, with their exceptional low-power attributes, long-term reliability and outstanding performance.”

“We are delighted to be partnering with HP to offer an enticing SSD storage option in their enterprise servers,” said Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Using SSDs as the primary storage medium in enterprise servers will provide optimal value for data centers, with their exceptional low-power attributes, long-term reliability and outstanding performance.”

After months of testing, HP qualified the Samsung ‘green’ SSD option across its industry-standard server line to give its customers an easy way to minimize power consumption, saving them money and boosting performance at the same time. This increased value proposition will allow corporations to address looming federal regulations on server energy usage levels, while lowering the total cost of server ownership.

“Customers demand fast, energy efficient servers that enable them to do more with less, cutting the costs associated with running their data centers,” said Jim Ganthier, vice president of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. “Samsung’s latest SSD technology coupled with HP ProLiant servers delivers energy efficient server platforms to enable customers to slash their power usage and reduce costs.”

By using single-level-cell (SLC) 3Gb/s (gigabits per second) SATA SSDs instead of 10K and 15K rpm hard disk drives (HDDs), HP ProLiant servers cut power drain and provide high performance, low latency solutions that can be up to 40-50 times faster than a traditional hard drive depending upon the application and computing workload. Samsung said.

When opting for an SSD storage solution over an HDD, HP data center customers also can free up a significant amount of physical space which can then be allocated for additional DRAM capacity — further improving system performance. Depending upon the application, a single Samsung SSD can replace between four and 40 15K HDDs in a server array.

In HP ProLiant servers, Samsung SSD’s power consumption is a miniscule 1.9 watts when writing to the drive and 1.5 watts when reading to it (approximately 1/5 that of a conventional enterprise hard drive). Power usage in idle mode is 0.1 watt.

For performance gauging, the Samsung SSD executes random read commands at 25,000 input/outputs per second (IOPS) and random writes at 6000 IOPS. It has a sequential read speed of 230 megabytes per second (MB/s) and a sequential write speed of 180MB/s.

Building on the company’s long history in hardware innovation and software development, HP’s latest generation of ProLiant G6 server technology delivers new standards of performance, energy efficiency and virtualization management. The standards-based HP ProLiant server portfolio enables customers to build resilient, cost-effective infrastructures that can efficiently manage data growth while virtually eliminating the risk of downtime.

For more information on SSDs visit www.SamsungSSD.com or www.hp.com/go/solidstate

About Samsung Electronics

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2008 consolidated sales of US$96 billion. Employing approximately 164,600 people in 179 offices across 61 countries, the company consists of two business units: Digital Media & Communications and Device Solutions. 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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