EMC is now shipping solid state and hard disk drives supplier Hitachi Global Storage Technologies’ (Hitachi GST) Ultrastar SSD400S SLC-based (single level cell), 2.5-inch, SAS solid state drives (SSD) in its "all Flash" VNX Unified Storage systems for mission-critical Microsoft and Oracle environments.
The Ultrastar SSD400S family is jointly developed SAS and FC enterprise-class SSDs, combining Hitachi GST’s enterprise HDD strength with Intel’s capabilities of developing SLC NAND flash memory and advanced SSD technology.
The SSD400S family also delivers up to 46,000 read and 21,000 sustained write IOPS and speeds 100 times faster than hard drives, according to Hitachi.
The EMC VNX family delivers enterprise capabilities for file, block and object storage in a scalable application.
Utilising Hitachi Ultrastar SSDs, EMC’s VNX5500-F system delivers 10X the performance and 80 % lower cost per TPM (transactions per minute) compared to an all-HDD EMC VNX system in Oracle OLTP environments.
EMC Unified Storage Division president Rich Napolitano said Hitachi understands EMC’s stringent design and qualification process and delivered an application that helps extend the reliability, endurance and sustained improved I/O performance that customers demand.
