Electricity Savings from Data Center SSDs Could Power an Entire Country, Researcher Says

eweek.com (May 7 2009) Servers

1. Most people are already aware that solid-state server and storage disks only use a portion—as little as one-half or less—of the electrical power that a spinning hard disk requires, simply because there are no moving parts that need energy to activate them. As SSDs move slowly but surely into the data center, noticeable dribs and drabs of bottom-line power savings are starting to become reality. However, when the full extent of the potential power savings of SSDs is projected a few years out, it's a much different story. Those motionless NAND flash disks promise to provide a staggering amount of power savings. In a report issued May 6, "Leveraging HDD Strength With SSD Potential: Can Collaboration Generate Synergistic Benefits?" SSD market researcher iSuppli said the increased deployment of SSDs could enable the world's data centers to reduce their cumulative electricity consumption by a whopping 166,643 ... (Read Full Article)

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