WD aims to tame growing data needs with latest enterprise SAS SSD

[Moltuae]

WD aims to tame growing data needs with latest enterprise SAS SSD

Article Link: http://computerworld.com/article/31...ata-needs-with-latest-enterprise-sas-ssd.html

WD's Ultrastar SS300, developed in partnership with Intel, uses a 12Gbps SAS interface and sports sequential read/write speeds up to 2.1GBps and 2.05GBps, respectively; the drive also offers random read/write input/output per second (IOPS) of up to 400,000 and 200,000, respectively.

 

[GTP]

WD aims to tame growing data needs with latest enterprise SAS SSD
Article Link: http://computerworld.com/article/31...ata-needs-with-latest-enterprise-sas-ssd.html

"WD's Ultrastar SS300, developed in partnership with Intel...."

Well that's a slap in the moosh for Sandisk!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

Nice.
Intel has dominated "enterprise" SSDs. Server grade SSDs should have drives with seriously high write lifespans..which most consumer grade SSDs do not.
Granted WD bought up Sandisk...but...Intels SSDs just dominate enterprise.

 

[GTP]

Nice.
Intel has dominated "enterprise" SSDs. Server grade SSDs should have drives with seriously high write lifespans..which most consumer grade SSDs do not.
Granted WD bought up Sandisk...but...Intels SSDs just dominate enterprise.

Yeah, Intel's SSD tech seems to be "king of the hill" across the board, from enterprise to consumer as well.
I just thought that since WD bought Sandisk for $17 Billion!! we would have seen some real dazzlers in the Enterprise SSD arena. But sadly WD have done bugger all since the buy out!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

One benefit...WD has some "Blue" model SSDs on the market which are dirt cheap compared to others.
I avoid regular WD Blue spindle drives like the plaque...but, their Blue SSD models are made from SanDisks highest model SSD...and we've been having good luck with them. Dirt cheap too compared to other SSD prices that skyrocketed this past winter.

 

[GTP]

Thanks for the tip. Just had to replace a WD Blue spinner in a laptop.

 

[MDD1963]

Yeah, Intel's SSD tech seems to be "king of the hill" across the board, from enterprise to consumer as well.
I just thought that since WD bought Sandisk for $17 Billion!! we would have seen some real dazzlers in the Enterprise SSD arena. But sadly WD have done bugger all since the buy out!

Enterprise?.... Intel!

Consumer? Samsung 850 EVO and 960 EVO for the M.2 folks....switch from EVO to Pro if someone intends a write-intensive/editing rig...

My last CrystalDiskMark run showed 3260 MB/sec sequential from a single 960 EVO...compared to 180 NB/sec from the HGST 4 TB 7200 rpm drive, the former is ~20 times as fast.

 

[labtech]

I am not familiar with Intel Enterprise SSD, but with concern to consumer SSD, they have had a couple of major firmware related problems.