“Green” PCIe SSD From Samsung

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced its fifth generation of green memory at the Memory Solutions Forum 2013 at the Shilla Hotel in Seoul, Korea.

Samsung Memory Solutions Forum is the new name for an annual event previously known as the Samsung Memory Solution CIO Forum.

Under a New Memory Paradigm theme, Samsung introduced memory solutions optimized for next generation data centers that use cloud computing based on a big data platform. This type of infrastructure is increasing in support of the mobile computing industry. The new fifth generation green memory solutions will help to resolve key data center issues by achieving performance improvements, securing additional physical space for systems, and saving amounts of power.

In his keynote, Young-Hyun Jun, EVP of memory sales and marketing, Samsung Electronics, noted: “With the introduction of these innovative memory solutions that maximize IT investment efficiency, we have set the stage for sharply strengthening the value of advanced memory.”

“We will continue to benefit society with the introduction of green IT technology in cooperation with our global partners to lead the global IT industry in creating greater shared value for customers,” he added.

Designed to achieve improvements in investment efficiency by upgrading existing IT systems and suggesting new ones, Samsung’s fifth generation of memory includes:

• Green DDR4, which delivers high speed, low power and reliability (Samsung announced volume production of these DDR4 modules in late August)
• Green PCIe SSD which enhances system efficiency with six times faster performance than that of a 600MB/s SATA SSD
• Efficient green memory solution that combines green DDR4 with a green PCIe SSD

The Green DDR4 solution achieves a server data transfer speed of 2,133Mb/s, a leap over DDR3’s performance limit of 1,866Mb/s. This enables a 15% performance boost and consumes 24% less energy. It also provides a greater amount of error correction in further improving system reliability. Samsung is planning on expanding the high-speed DDR4 DRAM market even more in the future with additional next-generation products and will be able to eventually offer DR4 with a data transfer speed of 3,200Mb/s, 1.5 times faster than today’s DDR4 enterprise products.

New green PCIe SSD solution offers a data transfer speed of 4GB/s, which is six times faster than 600MB/s SATA SSD’s, while reducing the delay in data transfer by 67%. These performance upgrades maximize IT ROI by increasing the level of energy efficiency approximately 2.6 times. Samsung plans to introduce other next-generation PCIe SSDs, based on its new 3D V-NAND technology and a new proprietary NAND controller, at a later date.

A combination of Samsung’s DDR4 and PCIe SSD green memory solutions will enhance the performance of server systems approximately 1.6 times and quadruple system capacity by eliminating unnecessary data duplication in the enterprise storage systems. As a result, the combined solution can achieve high level of efficiency among green IT solutions and overcome difficult prerequisites for new server systems involving budget, power consumption and space optimization.

If all server systems adopted Samsung’s fifth generation green memory solutions, an anticipated power savings of 45 terawatts/hour could be achieved. This translates into six billion people saving the power needed for everyday smartphone use for two years, which is equivalent to planting 800 million 10-year-old trees.