DDR3 and SSDs Can Save Data Center Costs, Samsung Claims

Saving costs and reducing the energy consumption are among the main priorities of today's professional users looking for a new server system to meet their data center performance requirements. In that perspective, new technologies emerge every day trying to provide customers with new ways to improve efficiency, reduce costs, but also deliver a high level of performance. On that note, Samsung has announced recently that users will see a reduction of data center costs when going for the company's 'dynamic duo' solution. This includes its own high-performance DDR3 memory chips combined with its Solid State Drives.

“With anywhere from dozens to thousands of servers in any given data center, the potential for substantial cost savings with DDR3 and SSDs is enormous,” said Jim Elliott, vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. “Blending the exceptionally low power of today’s DRAM with performance optimized, high capacity enterprise SSDs provides data center managers with a solid alternative to slower, high-voltage DRAM and hard disk drives,” he added.

Trying to make a case for its products, the company claims that DDR3 modules, which can work at 1.35Volts, combined with enterprise SSDs, which can be installed in arrays of servers, have the potential of saving over 10 percent of the power usage of a server computer system, or more in some cases.

“The combination of Samsung’s DDR3 and SSDs in new server architectures will provide more powerful green IT solutions and help immensely in putting the brakes on unnecessary energy drain. This has already been proven by server OEMs that have adopted our 50nm class process DRAM,” Elliott added.

As far as performances go, the company’s DDR3 modules are available in a range of capacities, from 2GB to 16GB, offering speeds of up to 1333mbps. As for Samsung's SSD lineup, its 100GB models can deliver read speeds of 230MB/s and write speeds of 180MB/s.