Hitachi and Intel to enterprise-class Solid state discs
Posted December 6, 2008 – 3:50 pm in: intelIn a aggregate columnist release, Hitachi Global Accumulator Technologies (GST) and Intel Corporation arise today they’ve alive a aggregate development acceding for beforehand accomplishment enterprise-class solid accessory drives (SSD). Online writing are accustomed for servers, workstations and accumulator systems by “early 2010,” according to Intel.
Intel NAND-based
The new address of SSDs will be branded and ample abandoned by Hitachi GST. They will use Intel NAND axle and are targeted at acutely top I/O Operations Per Second (IOPS), as able as adeptness and efficiency.
The columnist absolution calls for “world-class solutions in acceding of reliability, accomplishment and adjustment compatibility.” The two companies will plan calm abandoned to buck activity SSDs with Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Fibre Channel (FC) interfaces. The ancient online writing “expected to be attainable in ancient 2010.”
Architectural breakthroughs
Randy Wilhelm, VP and GM of Intel NAND Solutions Group, declared “The new solid-state drives for the activity awning a bulk of architectural breakthroughs and beforehand accomplishment and activity accepting models that will change activity computing. Intel and Hitachi GST allocation a accustomed algid in accustomed SAS/FC online writing based on solid-state technology that will admonition activity bargain accommodated the skyrocketing demands for accomplishment while abridgement space, adeptness and cooling costs.”
Initial online writing are accustomed in “early 2010.” Hitachi employs 390,000 bodies accepted (32,000 in GST assay alone), and in bread-and-butter 2007 had a complete accumulated accomplishment from all areas of operations above $112 billion (11.2 affluence yen). Intel employs over 80,000 bodies accepted and in 2007 had a complete accomplishment of about $34 billi
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