5Tb SSD using 25W!

in the article it says they haven`t released a price but the platter equivilent would cost upwards of 500 grand with controller cards etc to achieve the same 250k iops as it would need 500 drives
 
It's gotta be said tho that for enterprise level stuff the power savings could be massive, along with the associated decrease in heat giving more saving in air con etc. However I'd hate to be the one at work trying to sell this to my bosses on the grounds of it's power consumption!

Interesting article tho, good to see the tech being pushed as it's probably developments at the enterprise end of the market that'll benefit us all eventually.
 
it suggests that the main users would be high end enterprises, data warehouses and purchase/transaction servers.

still if you needed multiple Tb of high speed storage the power savings could be huge
 
Unless I'm reading it wrong it says 325watt.

Also by my calculations the transfer rates and IOPs can be achieved with under 30 mechanical HDDs not several hundred... however you still can't match the access times. To hit the IOPs you only need a handful of SAS drives.


EDIT: Although its hard to compare IOP without knowing the context.
 
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Cyber-Mav said:
really? so 3 x WD 2TB green power drives to make 6TB storage will consume 7kw power? something doesnt seem right there. :confused:
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Yeah because servers run on 5400rpm harddrives, that's absolutely correct. Come on, this is a huge amount of extremely quick storage, very nice deal and it's really showing some dramatic gains now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOPS
 
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Rroff said:
Unless I'm reading it wrong it says 325watt.

Also by my calculations the transfer rates and IOPs can be achieved with under 30 mechanical HDDs not several hundred... however you still can't match the access times. To hit the IOPs you only need a handful of SAS drives.


EDIT: Although its hard to compare IOP without knowing the context.
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it looks like they have changed it, when i read it, it was 25W
 
I'm guesing they are using a different scale for IOPs to what I'm used to, the wiki article quotes aorund 180 or so for 15K SAS drives but the servers I was playing with recently were quoted at 250K IOPs and they only have 7 SAS drives.
 
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