960GB 6Gb SATA 2.5-Inch MLC SSD by Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd is supplying its SSD, the SM843T, for use in high-performance servers and storage in next-generation data centers, including big data systems.

"Samsung Green SSD products are widely acknowledged for their superior performance and quality design having contributed to data center system improvements and operational cost savings," said Young-Hyun Jun, EVP, memory sales and marketing, Samsung. "In response to customer demand, we are accelerating the growth of the flash storage market with new SSD offerings this year like the SM843T, while reinforcing our competitive edge in next-generation SSD products and solutions."

The SM843T strengthens Samsung’s SATA interface enterprise SSD product lineup. Offering up to 960GB of storage for faster and more efficient big data systems and cloud computing environments, the SM843T offers the SATA 6.0 SSDs.

When equipping enterprise servers in data centers with SM843T SSDs, IT managers will see a performance gain of six times and energy savings of 30% over HDD drives, enabling improved system-level performance and energy efficiency at the same time.

In addition, the SM843T protects the most recent data being processed from a sudden power interruption, for enhanced system reliability. Along with this power loss protection and Samsung’s dedication to optimized systems, solutions and software technology, also referred as ‘3S Technology,’ the SM843T achieves high QoS level required by global cloud service providers and financial institutions.

Through mass production of the SM843T, Samsung’s competitive edge in the PC market has expanded into the enterprise SSD market.

The SM843T line-up boasts high performance and endurance levels, respectively, reaching up to 98,000 (sustained) random read IO/s and 20,000 sequential TBW (TeraBytes Written) with the 960GB model, while providing an environment for big data systems.

According to IHS iSuppli, the global SSD market is expected to reach approximately $10 billion in revenues by the end of 2013, a 43% increase over the previous year, led by sales of enterprise SSDs which it expects will account for approximately 47% of the market in 2013.