Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Pop Quiz: what is the most environmentally friendly drive for data centres today? Samsung reckons it has the answer in the biggest little speedy green SSD yet.
However, Samsung chose to announce the arrival
of a 100GB solid state drive not at CES Vegas, but at the Storage
Visions 2009 conference taking place just before it in order to perhaps
stand more chance of getting noticed.
I suspect it need not have worried, after all when you throw in such
keywords as enterprise, data centre, virtualisation, green and reduced power
consumption, the last thing the media is going to do is ignore you.
The new Samsung SS805 Enterprise drive is small at just 2.5 inches, but at the same time big with a whopping 100GB capacity.
It is also fast, having been performance-optimised to process IOPS
(input/output per second) at a rate of at least 10 times as fast than
the fastest 15K rpm SAS HDD which is currently available for
transactional data workloads.
The SSD has been designed to remove system performance bottlenecks
found in enterprise storage applications, and can read data
sequentially at 230 megabytes per second while writing sequentially at
180 MB/s.
As far as being green is concerned, well Samsung claims it can process
100 times the number of IOPS per watt as a 15K rpm 2.5-inch SAS HDD for
applications where higher performance and lower power consumption are
required.
The SSDs use 1.9 watts of power in active mode and 0.6 watts in idle
mode compared to typical 15K HDDs consuming between 8 to 15 watts in
active mode and 1 to 2 watts in idle mode.
Jim Elliott, Samsung vice president of memory marketing, says "Our new
enterprise SSD offers CIOs and IT managers the ability to greatly
improve storage reliability and capacity while avoiding costly power
and AC infrastructure upgrades in data centers at or near capacity."
Pricing and availability have yet to be confirmed.
David Bass
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