For modern organizations, storage isn’t just an investment, it’s a business driver, supporting critical capabilities that create and use more data than ever. However, today’s enterprise SSDs can not only capture and serve up mountains of data at higher speeds than ever, they can also deliver tremendous ROI, lowering costs while improving business outcomes.
Here are 4 key ways SSDs can drive enterprise costs down while giving your organization a boost across multiple workflows.
1. Enhanced performance
The leap from HDDs to SSDs brought exponentially greater speeds, with SSDs performing up to 35 times faster than older, spinning disk technology. Today’s PCIe 4.0 drives leave even yesterday’s top performers in the dust. Each generation of the PCIe standard doubles the throughput, so PCIe 4.0 NVMe drives, like the Samsung PM9A3, can hit random write speeds of up to 200,000 IOPS and random read speeds of up to 1,100,000 IOPS.
Faster performance by the SSDs in your server rooms and data centers means that systems become more responsive: application load times shrink while data access is quicker than ever. These outcomes can limit costs by increasing efficiency, minimizing delays, and potentially eliminating the need to add more servers and other infrastructure.
2. Reduced energy needs
SSDs draw significantly less power than HDDs. The mechanical nature of HDDs, with their spinning platters and moving arms, requires more energy to operate and creates more heat to control. This delivers multiple benefits. Lower power requirements from SSDs mean a smaller electricity bill. Also, cooling requirements can be greatly reduced, saving on additional power needs and costs.
This is why Samsung’s data center SSDs are designed for exceptional power efficiency and lower heat generation. The PM9A3 (U.2 form factor) with 960 GB to 7.68 TB capacity draws up to 11 watts for active reads, up to 13.5 watts for active writes and up to 3.5 watts at idle. For data centers and server rooms using SATA drives, 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. No matter which interface you require, Samsung SSDs can help reduce power consumption and heat, with the potential for significant savings.
3. Optimized space usage
Rising real estate and construction costs mean space is always at a premium. Using higher capacity SSDs in a variety of form factors enables enterprises to maximize the rack density. Thanks to innovations such as vertical NAND (V-NAND), introduced commercially by Samsung in 2014, more storage can fit in less space while keeping power consumption low. V-NAND density has increased dramatically since that first generation, growing from its original 32 layers of flash memory chips to 176 layers today1 — 5.5 times the density, with greater reliability than older NAND memory.
This means you can potentially fit an additional server per rack, since both the space and power requirements won’t exceed the rack’s limits. On a macro scale, this also reduces the need to grow your facility’s footprint while keeping overall power and cooling needs under control.
4. Minimize downtime and maintenance costs
SSDs are much more reliable than spinning platter HDDs, so they can reduce downtime costs while helping keep employees more productive. Also, since SSDs have zero moving parts, they require less maintenance, which saves significant time for IT staff.
Some SSDs are even designed to ensure greater dependability and resilience. The PM9A3 enterprise SSD has reliability features built in, including enterprise power loss protection, which prevents data loss in case of unexpected power outages or shutdowns. This can not only get your data center back up faster after a power-related incident, but your organization can also protect against the long-term economic impact of lost or corrupted data.
As organizations ramp up new, data-intensive capabilities, from analyzing massive amounts of customer and supplier data to adding AI-powered tools into critical workflows, faster, more efficient storage with higher capacities is crucial to productivity and efficiency. Samsung SSDs are built to deliver the power modern businesses demand while helping to deliver a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) — enabling enterprises to scale, adapt and respond to new challenges and opportunities more effectively than ever before.
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