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Disk drives prove to be greener than SSDs in servers

Pete Steege

Pete Steege

June 24, 2009

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Ideas International compared a disk-based server to an SSD-based server using the new Storage Performance Council’s SPC-1/E efficiency benchmark for some very interesting results. 

The disk-based server used 300 GB Seagate Savvio 10K drives.  The SSD server was an IBM model using 69 GB solid state devices.

Summary:

  • Cost/IOPS: about the same
  • Cost/gigabyte: disk-based server wins
  • Gigabytes/Watt: disk-based server wins
  • IOPS/Watt: SSD-based server wins

An interesting observation from SearchStorage on this test: the SSD-based server used about the same power (within 3%) whether operating or idling.  The disk-based system used 78% at idle compare to its peak power usage.

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2 Comments

  1. TF
    Posted August 3, 2009 at 1:02 am | Permalink

    Great article Pete. When will Seagate come out with a SSD? There are literally a dozen different SSD brands out there and I’m surprised seagate has not put out one yet.

  2. Pete Steege
    Posted August 3, 2009 at 5:58 am | Permalink

    Seagate’s first SSD is scheduled to come out later in 2009. Stay tuned!

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