South Korean electronics giant Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. said Tuesday (Jan. 6) it has developed a 100-gigabyte (GB) SSD designed to remove the performance bottleneck in enterprise storage applications.

The drive is suited for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery, internet data centers, virtualization and on-line transaction processing, according to Samsung.

Samsung (Seoul) said the 100-GB enterprise SSD offers a 10X advantage in input/output per second (IOPS) capability compared with the fastest 15K rpm Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) hard disk drive (HDD) available for transactional data workloads, with a random read speed of 25K and random write speed of 6K.

The new drive can process as much as 100 times the number of IOPS per watt as a 15K rpm 2.5-inch SAS HDD in applications where higher performance and lower power consumption are both needed, according to Samsung.

Samsung said its enterprise SSD reads data sequentially at 2300- MB/s and writes sequentially at 180 MB/s. Calling the drives the "most environmentally friendly drive for data centers today," Samsung said the enterprise SSDs use 1.9 watts of power in active mode and 0.6 watts in idle mode, minimizing power and heat loads.

Samsung credited the 100-GB SSD's performance to company-developed technology, including an 8-channel controller, improved NAND flash and special drive firmware.