Solid State Drives (SSD)

High Speed, High Reliability and High Security Storages

- Personal Computing: high end laptops and PCs, such as for designing, gaming, simulations and government business where high reliability is required.

- Enterprise Storage: servers involving high density reading such as web portal and e-commerce online companies, large multi-national companies, telecom operators, and content delivery networks.

- Rugged Computing: computers used in mobile or harsh environment such as on auto vehicles, trains, airplanes, aerospace, oil field, and other outdoor computing scenarios.

1. Hard disk failure and resultant management costs.

According to a the study by Carnegie Mellon and Google, an HDD fails at the rate of 8.6% even in a well-controlled environment. This cause not only material costs but also entails labor costs, losses due to downtime as well as customer relations management costs.

2. Redundancy caused by its low IO performance

Typically, systems handling huge data flow and requiring perfect uptime are designed with hundreds of hard drives aggregated into 2 or more layers just to achieve the required performance level. The capacity yielded by these is often not needed, and the volume and scale of these systems are unnecessarily huge and redundant, causing other management costs.

3. Power consumption

A typical 15k rpm HDD consumes about 10 to 15 watts. By comparison, an SSD consumes about 1/8th as much. The random read performance of a 15k rpm HDD is about 300, while the SSD is 30,000. If you try to achieve a similar level of IOPS with a 15k rpm HDD, you would need more than 100 of them. If you calculate their total power consumption, the difference is more than 25 times, not to mention the per unit cost. If you add the cooling and ventilation power consumption into consideration, the difference in savings is substantial.