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Samsung SAS SSDs Certified for Use with VMware Virtual SAN

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Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that Samsung's SM1625 SSD, a high-performing solid state drive with high density and low power consumption has been certified by VMware as an optimized solution for VMware Virtual SAN. The SM1625 SSD, Samsung's first dual-ported SAS SSD with densities of up to 800 gigabytes (GBs), has been certified for VMware Virtual SAN for use in data centers and other enterprise applications. VMware Virtual SAN is a new offering that allows customers to pool server disks and flash resources to create a resilient, high-performance and dynamic shared storage solution for virtual machines.

"VMware Virtual SAN provides customers a simpler and more flexible tier of storage for their virtual machines," said John Gilmartin, vice president, Cloud Infrastructure Products, VMware. "By clustering flash and direct-attached storage, VMware Virtual SAN provides a shared storage solution that is high-performing, cost-effective, and seamlessly integrated into VMware vCenter Server. We are pleased to have Samsung's SM1625 SSD as a high-performance storage option for our joint customers."



"We are very enthusiastic about this SM1625 certification as the basis for partnering with VMware to offer a SAS storage solution for the enterprise," said JaeHyeong Lee, vice president of memory product planning & application engineering, Samsung Electronics. "We will work closely with not only our OEM customers but also global software companies such as VMware in looking to develop high performing and environmentally-friendly IT systems for data center applications and enterprise storage."

The newly certified SAS SM1625 enterprise storage, which is produced using 20 nanometer (nm) class* technology, can read data sequentially at 950 MB/s (megabytes per second). In addition, the SM1625 has a random read speed of 120,000 IOPS (inputs/outputs per second). Further, it can handle up to 10 drive writes per day, an endurance rate that covers a typical warranty period for its full five years.

By utilizing 20nm-class technology, Samsung's SM1625 SSD provides up to 200 times greater power efficiency than conventional (15k rpm) hard drives, and also comes with power loss protection to ensure data is safe in a power outage.

The SM1625 is the starting lineup of how Samsung has been driving development of the industry's most advanced SAS SSD solutions to enable significant improvements in server system performance, while meeting a rapidly growing need for energy efficiency and higher densities.

The SM1625 is available in densities of 100GB, 200GB, 400GB and 800GB.

Samsung will continue to partner with VMware to offer other high performance, power saving solid state drives with rich-storage optimized features, such as V-NAND and NVMe SSDs for use with VMware infrastructure.

Samsung will work closely with not only our OEM customers but also global software companies in developing the highest performing and most environmentally-friendly IT systems for data center applications and enterprise storage, as we continue to affirm our leadership in the SSD market.

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The newly certified SAS SM1625 enterprise storage, which is produced using 20 nanometer (nm) class* technology, can read data sequentially at 950 MB/s (megabytes per second).

What does the asterisk mean? :confused:
 
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What does the asterisk mean? :confused:

20nm "Class" --> anything between 20 and 29.9999999

At least thats what i assume that particular asterisk means, it seems to have lost it's small print at some point
 
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is this new SSD only for using Virtual SAN? cannot be use as "normal" HDD for desktop or laptops?
 
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is this new SSD only for using Virtual SAN? cannot be use as "normal" HDD for desktop or laptops?

Technically if you wanted to and had the required SAS controller then yes, but these things tend to cost many times more than your ordinary SSD
 
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Technically if you wanted to and had the required SAS controller then yes, but these things tend to cost many times more than your ordinary SSD


ah yes of course as these targets enterprise with huge network...
 
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