HITACHI GST ships Ultrastar SSD400S
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has announced its 3.5-inch Fibre Channel Ultrastar SLC -based (single level cell) SSDs are now shipping in HP 3PAR F-Class, T-Class and the new P10000 V-Class storage systems for enterprise and cloud datacenters, as well as for small-to-medium sized businesses. Developed in conjunction with Intel, the Hitachi Ultrastar SSD400S SSD family provides unique value to OEM customers who are increasingly looking for high-performance, high-endurance enterprise-class SSDs for simple, scalable and flexible integration into new or existing enterprise storage systems or designs.
HP 3PAR systems are designed for agility and efficiency in virtual and cloud data centers. HP 3PAR reduces acquisition and related operational costs by up to 50 percent and increases administrative efficiency up to tenfold.
"Hitachi understands tiered storage needs - from controllers and firmware, to BIOS and operating systems - as well as the importance of delivering the highest data integrity, cost-efficiency and easy system integration," said James Ho, vice president, Asia Pacific, Hitachi GST.
Peter Slocum, Vice President of Engineering, 3PAR, HP said, "Hitachi's new Ultrastar solid state drives for HP 3PAR storage systems deliver the increased reliability, performance, data protection as well as power loss management capabilities that customers demand in mission critical virtualization and cloud data center applications."
The Ultrastar SSD400S 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 Ultrastar SSD400S family is backed by a five-year limited warranty, or the maximum petabytes written (based on capacity).
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