Demonstrating its commitment to delivering leading-edge
technologies and solutions for enterprise-class servers and storage
systems, Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) today
announced that its Ultrastar™ enterprise-class solid state drive
(SSD) family is the industry’s first to use 25-nanometer (nm)
single-level cell (SLC) NAND flash. The Ultrastar SSD400S.B family
combines Hitachi’s proven enterprise hard disk drive (HDD)
expertise with Intel’s® extensive capabilities in developing
high-endurance SLC NAND flash memory and advanced SSD technology.
The drives also conform to the Trusted Computing Group’s Enterprise
A Security Subsystem Class encryption specification, helping
customers protect sensitive data, and reduce the costs associated
with drive retirement and reuse.
Hitachi GST Ultrastar SSD400S.B, the
industry's first 25nm NAND Flash Enterprise-Class SSD family.
(Photo: Business Wire )
“Security is a growing concern among enterprise customers,
especially those in financial services, e-commerce and online
transaction processing,” said Brendan Collins, vice president of
product marketing, Hitachi GST. “Our solid state drives are
designed to deliver the highest level of performance, while
reducing total cost of ownership. With our new 25nm SLC SSDs, our
enterprise customers now have the highest level of data protection
in an SSD without compromising system performance, reliability and
endurance.”
The new Ultrastar SSD400S.B family is available in 100GB, 200GB
and 400GB capacities, and features 2.5-inch 6Gb/s Serial Attached
SCSI (SAS) interface. This provides unique value to customers who
are increasingly looking to tiered storage as a method of managing
today's datacenters.
Working in collaboration with Intel, the Ultrastar SSD400S.B
family combines enterprise-grade NAND flash, proprietary endurance
firmware and power loss management techniques to extend the
reliability, endurance and sustained performance of the new SSD
family. The 400GB SSD can endure up to 35 petabytes (PB) of random
writes over the life of the drive, which is the equivalent of
writing 19.2TB/day for five years, ensuring greater utilization and
reliability in the most demanding enterprise environments. For
complete end-to-end data protection and reliability, the Ultrastar
SSD400S family includes advanced data integrity and power loss
management technologies that are tied with industry standards to
ensure compatibility in multi-tiered SSD/HDD system designs.
“The transition to the latest 25nm SLC NAND from Intel
reinforces the commitment of both companies to deliver outstanding
performance and endurance in the Ultrastar SSD400S.B
family," said Rob Crooke, Intel vice president and general
manager of the Intel Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group. "Our
collaboration with Hitachi GST continues to deliver leading
enterprise-class SSD solutions that are critical to building Tier 0
solutions for the enterprise."
The new Ultrastar SSD400S.B family delivers the industry’s
highest SSD sequential throughput, up to 536MB/s read and 502MB/s
write throughput with 6Gb/s SAS. The new drive also delivers up to
57,500 read and 25,500 sustained write IOPS, reaching speeds 100
times faster than traditional hard drives, resulting in rapid
response times for real-time transaction processing access to “hot”
enterprise data for improved productivity and operational
efficiency. As fewer SSDs are required to achieve the same HDD
ultra-high performance, the new Ultrastar SSD400S.B family offers
significant value in terms of IOPS per Watt, while reducing TCO
through low power consumption, efficient cooling and reduced space
requirements.
Encryption Capabilities
Hitachi’s optional self-encrypting drives (SEDs) provide
hardware-based data security and enhanced secure erase capability.
Self-encrypting drives scramble data using a key as it is written
to the disk, and then descramble it with the key as it is
retrieved, giving users the highest level of data protection
available. It also speeds and simplifies the drive re-deployment
process. By deleting the encryption key, the data is rendered
unreadable, eliminating the need for time consuming data-overwrite.
This enables enhanced scalability in multi-drive scenarios because
encryption is handled by the drive, eliminating the performance
bottleneck of traditional solutions. Further, system performance is
improved because the encryption workload is moved off the processor
and chipset and onto the drive.
Ideal for Tiered Storage Environments
Hitachi GST leads the industry with the broadest HDD and SSD
storage family for tiered storage needs in the enterprise.
Hitachi’s full line of HDDs and SSDs support the entire enterprise
ecosystem where HDDs and SSDs have to integrate seamlessly, side by
side in tiered storage environments. The synergistic relationship
between Hitachi’s new throughput-enhancing SSDs and traditional
HDDs provides cost effective, end-to-end enterprise-class storage
solutions, delivering reliability, compatibility, capacity, cost
and system performance. This combination makes Hitachi GST a
leading HDD/SSD provider with the experience and technology needed
to meet escalating reliability, endurance, and performance in the
most demanding enterprise environments.
Ultrastar SSD400S.B Availability
Hitachi GST has already shipped and is currently qualifying its
Ultrastar SSD400S.B drives with select OEMs. Broader qualification
samples are now available with product ramp scheduled in 1H12. The
Ultrastar SSD400S.B comes with or without an encryption option and
is backed by a five-year limited warranty, or the maximum petabytes
written (based on capacity). Please visit
http://www.hitachigst.com/solid-state-drives for more
information.
About Hitachi Global Storage
Technologies
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) develops
advanced hard disk drives, enterprise-class solid state drives,
innovative external storage solutions and services used to store,
preserve and manage the world’s most valued data. Founded by the
pioneers of hard drives, Hitachi GST provides high-value storage
for a broad range of market segments, including Enterprise,
Desktop, Mobile Computing, Consumer Electronics and Personal
Storage. Hitachi GST was established in 2003 and maintains its U.S.
headquarters in San Jose, California. For more information, please
visit the company’s website at http://www.hitachigst.com.
About Hitachi, Ltd.
Hitachi, Ltd., (NYSE: HIT / TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo,
Japan, is a leading global electronics company with approximately
360,000 employees worldwide. Fiscal 2010 (ended March 31, 2011)
consolidated revenues totaled 9,315 billion yen ($112.2 billion).
Hitachi will focus more than ever on the Social Innovation
Business, which includes information and telecommunication systems,
power systems, environmental, industrial and transportation
systems, and social and urban systems, as well as the sophisticated
materials and key devices that support them. For more information
on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at
http://www.hitachi.com.
Hitachi GST remains an independent company until the acquisition
by Western Digital closes, anticipated to take place by March 2012.
Our product portfolio has been a driver of our success. Until the
close, we continue to execute plans for our communicated product
roadmap and both companies intend to ship all product lines in
parallel until their logical end of life. Customers can rest
assured that when the acquisition is complete all Hitachi GST terms
and conditions of the product warranty in effect at the time of
purchase will be honored.
One GB is equal to one billion bytes and one TB equals 1,000 GB
(one trillion bytes). One PB is equal to 1,000 TB (one quadrillion
bytes). Actual capacity will vary depending on operating
environment and formatting.
Ultrastar is a trademark of Hitachi GST. Hitachi trademarks are
authorized for use in countries and jurisdictions in which Hitachi
has the right to market the brands. Hitachi is not liable for third
parties’ unauthorized use of Hitachi trademarks. All other
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