Samsung SLC SSDs Selected by HP for ProLiant G6 and G7 Servers

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced at HP Tech Forum 2010 that its 1.35 Volt, 1333 Mbps Green DDR3 DRAM memory, and Enterprise SSDs, have been chosen for use in HP ProLiant G6 and G7 servers using AMD Opteron 6100 Series and Intel Xeon 5600 processors. These are the latest generation x86 class servers designed for use in virtualized environments where energy efficiency and performance optimization are dual objectives of IT managers.

"The global energy drain from data centers is huge and it’s worsening wherever IT managers have yet to embrace a green philosophy for their computing environments. By adding Samsung DDR3 and SSD’s to HP’s energy efficient ProLiant servers, the green IT solution becomes even more compelling," said Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing and product planning, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc.

Samsung’s Green DDR3 uses advanced 40nm-class 1.35V 2Gb-based DRAM technology to improve the energy efficiency and performance of servers. The Green DDR3, which consumes 73 percent less power than DDR2 and features bandwidth up to 1333 Mbps, is available in dual-in-line memory modules (DIMMs) from 4GB to 32GBs with the HP G7 and select G6 servers offering densities of 4GB (both registered and unregistered with error correction code (ECC), and 8GB registered DIMMs with ECC. As a result, the total power consumption of these servers is markedly less than that of previous generations.

With Samsung Green DDR3 and SSDs, data centers and server farms using the new generations of HP ProLiant servers can free up to 27 percent of physical space for future capacity expansion.

In addition, the use of Samsung 60GB and 120GB Enterprise SSDs as high performance options to conventional hard disk drives, helps provide a small footprint means to faster data processing and lower data center cooling costs.

"Clients need to maximize the performance of their virtualized infrastructure with energy-efficient technology that reduces operating costs and extends the life of their data centers," said Jim Ganthier, vice president of marketing, Industry Standard Servers, HP. "By integrating Samsung’s Green DDR3 memory and Enterprise SSD components into its industry-leading ProLiant servers, HP is enabling customers to achieve faster data processing and higher performance with their computing infrastructure."

With its drive drawer design, the HP ProLiant BL465c G7 server blade, powered by the AMD Opteron 6100 Series processor, provides more flexible local storage options including the use of Samsung’s 60GB and 120GB Enterprise SSDs.

The Samsung single-level-cell (SLC) SSD has a (sequential) read speed of 230MB/s megabytes per second (MB/s) and a (sequential) write speed of 139 MB/s. The SLC SSD’s power consumption is as little as 1.04 watts (slightly more than one-eight that of a conventional 15K enterprise rpm hard drive) in active mode and 520mW (milliwatts) in sleep mode.