Hitachi GST Ships 25-Nanometer SLC SSDs
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies (Hitachi GST) has 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 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.
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.
"Security is a growing concern among enterprise customers, especially those in financial services, e-commerce and online transaction processing. 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," said Brendan Collins, VP, Product Marketing, Hitachi GST.
"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. Our collaboration with Hitachi GST continues to deliver leading enterprise-class SSD solutions that are critical to building Tier 0 solutions for the enterprise," said Rob Crooke, VP & GM, Intel, Non-Volatile Memory Solutions Group.
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