Offering instant-load performance, storage flexibility, and increased energy efficiency and reliability, SSDs can provide significant benefits to today’s businesses. With companies handling more data than ever, storage is an investment into a stronger future. Today’s enterprise SSDs can capture and manage mountains of data at higher speeds and deliver tremendous ROI, leading to lower costs and improving business outcomes.
Below are four key ways today’s enterprise SSDs can help lower costs and boost your business across multiple workflows.
Enhanced Performance
SSDs brought greater speeds to the technology world, performing up to 235 times faster than the older spinning disk technology. The PCIe 4.0 drivers outpace even recent top performers. While each generation of the PCIe standard doubles the throughput, the PCIe 4.0 NVMe can hit random write speeds of up to 200,000 IOPS and random speeds of up to 1,100,000 IOPS.
SSDs’ faster performance in your server rooms and data centers results in more responsive systems: application load times shrink while data access is quicker. Such results can reduce costs, increase efficiency, minimize delays, and eliminate the need to add more servers and other infrastructure.
Reduced Energy Needs
The mechanical nature of HDDs, fixed disks with rotating platters, requires significantly more energy than today’s SSDs. While HDDs create more heat to control and have shorter life spans, SSDs are quieter, faster, more durable, and consume less energy. These benefits help lower power requirements and reduce the cooling requirements, which equate to a smaller electricity bill.
Samsung’s data center SSDs are designed for exceptional power efficiency and lower heat generation. The brand’s PM9A3 (U.2 form factor) with 960 GB to 7.68 TB capacity can draw up to 11 watts for active reads, up to 13.5 watts for active writes, and up to 3.5 watts at idle. Samsung’s 2.5-inch PM893 with 7.68 TB capacity uses just 2.1 watts for active reads, 3.2 watts for active writes, and 1.5 watts at idle, making it ideal for data centers and server rooms using SATA drives.
Regardless of what interface you require, Samsung SSDs can help reduce energy needs and heat, providing potential savings that can add up in the long run.
Optimized Space Usage
Using higher-capacity SSDs in various form factors enables enterprises to maximize rack density. Innovations such as Samsung’s vertical NAND (V-NAND), introduced in 2014, offer more storage within less space while keeping power consumption low. This product’s density has increased dramatically since its first generation, growing from its original 32 layers of flash memory chips to 176 layers today.
This means businesses can potentially fit an additional server per rack because the space and power requirements will not exceed the rack’s limits. This can also control overall power and cooling needs on a macro scale.
Minimize Downtime and Maintenance Costs
SSDs offer more reliability than HDDs and can reduce downtime and help employees stay productive. They also provide significant benefits for IT staff, as they have zero moving parts and require less maintenance, reducing downtime and costs.
The PM9A3 enterprise SSD, designed to ensure more dependability and resilience, has built-in reliability features. These include enterprise power loss protection, which prevents data loss in the event of power outages or shutdowns. This means you can get your data back up more quickly after power-related incidents and protect your company against the long-term economic impact of lost or corrupted data.
As today’s businesses require advanced technologies with data-intensive capabilities, SSDs are built to deliver the power you need and offer a lower total cost of ownership. Whether you need tools that can analyze massive amounts of customer and supplier data or AI-powered tools added into workflows, SSDs can help you scale, adapt, and respond more effectively in today’s global society.
