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Samsung Electronics has announced that, after an extensive testing period that it’s 32GB and 64GB solid state drives (SSDs) have been selected for use in the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server. This marks the very first time that an SSD has been qualified for use in a server optimized for virtualization.

The world’s first server blade designed solely to host virtual machines, the ProLiant is designed for use in virtualized environments that require significant memory, data storage and network connections in order to optimise server performance.

By using SSDs instead of hard disk drives, HP is able to free up a large amount of physical space which can instead be used for additional DRAM capacity – further improving system performance. The BL495c features 16 DRAM sockets.

The HP ProLiant BL495c eliminates performance bottlenecks in virtual machine hosts. The server blade has been set up with more memory and I/O than any other two-processor blade server, a maximum processor speed of 2.3GHz and a maximum front-side bus speed of 1 GHz, according to HP. The ProLiant also comes with the option of two SATA SSD storage drives at either 32 or 64GB’s.

The Samsung single-level-cell (SLC) SSD has a read speed of 100Mbps and a write speed of 80 Mbps. The SLC SSD only eats up a tiny 0.5 watt in active mode and 0.1 watt when in sleep.

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