SSDs - Delivering Reliability & Endurance for Enterprise

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Today’s enterprising organizations are fast realizing the importance of storage device reliability and endurance while they expand their IT infrastructure to different levels. This is where SSDs are helping them to a great extent .

Leading today’s storage needs, the hard disk drive (HDD) is a technology which is roughly about 50 years old, and even though a number of other storage technologies have come and gone, the HDD remains the predominant storage device and technology of choice for the IT decision makers. However, there is a fast movement towards SSds today as this is way forward for the enterprise to get the best from the storage world.

It is important to mention that decades' worth of research and development and as a result, billions of dollars have been spent to arrive at this stage of development for the disk drive technology. Through the efforts of many in the HDD industry, HDD storage densities, as measured by the capability to store a given number of bytes within a single drive, have increased to 3 terabytes of capacity within the industry today.

At the same time, the cost of storage has also benefited from the decades of advancements and is measured in cents per gigabyte of capacity today. The dramatic advancements in HDD technology that have resulted in higher-capacity devices at more affordable prices have been a key factor in the success of the HDD.

However, the fact that the industry ships over 500 million disk drives annually is a testament to the quality and reliability of the HDD as well. Today, we rely on and trust HDDs to store the data that is critical in our everyday lives — from important PowerPoint presentations on our work laptop, to the family photos on our home computer, to the 24 x 7 operation of HDDs that run in datacenters or manufacturing focused enterprise.

Meanwhile, recent advancements in solid state technology (specifically NAND semiconductor technology) have thrust SSDs into mainstream applications and datacenters. Increasingly, SSDs are becoming a more common storage device in the IT environment. And especially at a time when the enterprise segment looks for rapid expansion of IT infrastructure - a major portion of this expansion predominantly means getting better and more flexible storage options. This is where SSDs come in to action.

We can surely day that when compared with the decades of history and experience behind HDDs, the SSD is a relative newcomer in many IT applications, however, it is growing at a rapid pace. Server and storage system manufacturers are tasked with evaluating various integration strategies for SSD devices within enterprise systems.

Whether it is an enterprise in the ITES segment or a manufacturing focusing organization, a BFSI company or a Pharma entity, SSD based storage is making sense for the enterprise segment like never before and moving forward this is surely giving a big way forward for the overall enterprise segment.