Datacenter More Efficient Energy Use Thanks to the SSD

Media solidstate storage drive (SSD) is to offer higher performance than the hard disk drive (HDD). However, research firm iSuppli Corp. rate, the main attraction is not performance SSD, but SSD's ability in saving electricity consumption, compared with the HDD.

iSuppli confirms, datacenter, datacenters in the world can save electricity consumption of 166.643 megawatt hours (MWh) in six years if the switch HDD to SSD. 166.643 MWh figures are not small numbers.

U.S. Energy Information Administration revealed that electricity for more than enough to meet the electricity needs of the Republic of The Gambia for a year. Republic Gambia own meripakan a West African country which has an area 10.380 square kilometers with a population of 1.7 million inhabitants, and income per capita USD1, 395.

iSuppli admitted, the company can not change the total HDD in their data center with SSDs as prices are still very expensive. However, iSuppli asserted, SSDs actually better suited than the HDD to support a number of applications in the datacenter.

"At this time, SSDs ideal for replacing at least 10 percent of the HDD in the datacenter. SSDs are suited for running applications that require super-fast data transactions. HDD overwhelmed by running the application because speed is not high enough," said senior storage analyst Krishna Chander iSupple System .

In the storage industry, the first producer of SSDs into the growing enterprise-class storage is the world's largest storage manufacturer EMC Corp.. EMC did in 2008 with the release of storage systems Symetrix DMX-4.

"Over the years, HDD performance handcuff customers. Integration of SSD is a revolution in enterprise-class storage inudtsri. SSD adoption of this innovation to extend the list of EMC," said Division of EMC storage president David Donatelli Corp..

With SSD storage, Symmetrix DMX-4 to 38 percent more energy efficient than storage class using the HDD. The speed of Symmetrix DMX-4 also increased due to the use of SSD has a speed 10 times higher than the HDD.

"EMC offers exceptional performance benefits of being the first manufacturer to grow SSD storage system. Spurt performance like this only comes once every ten or five years," said Senior Analyst Enterprise Strategy Group Inc. Duplesie Steve.

Research firm Gartner calls, data center energy consumption should be reduced because the datacenter donate 23 percent of carbon dioxide emissions caused global ICT infrastructure. Gartner insists, ICT as a whole contribute 2 percent of global CO2 emissions, equivalent to CO2 emissions that contribute aviation industry ..

"The number 23 percent in the datacenter is less than 40 percent of CO2 emissions from PCs and monitors. But CO2 emissions are terkonesntrasi datacenter and increased more rapidly," said Gartner Research Vice President Rakesh Kumar.

Kumar reveals, ICT organizations in the world today have not given enough attention to cut CO2 emissions data center. In order for data center CO2 emissions do not contribute large semkain, Kumar appealed, ICT organizations should start thinking about cutting energy consumption.

Kumar rate, datacenter major cause of CO2 emissions if the user does not use high berkepadatan sever. Server-traditional sever wasteful power consumption resulting in high heat. Increased energy consumption because users must channel energy to cool the servers.

"The issue is even more worrying. Consumption of energy for the microprocessor alone will continue to increase until the next ten years," said Kumar. Microprocessors are not the only elements of the datacenter. Infrastructure has also storage and networks.

Gartner rate, most organizations increase the volume of large-scale servers, storage, and networking in the last three years. Gartner predicts, increase the volume will continue to happen until the next five years. Gartner reveals, CO2 emissions will increase because the traditional data center continued to be built. In fact, the traditional data center is very wasteful of energy, for the operation of ICT as well as cooling.

"The CIOs and data center leaders should consider the purchase of energy management in the new hardware and datacenter management," said Kumar.

In order for data center energy consumption does not continue to grow, Kumar reveals, oragnisasi ICT must fully understand the allocation of resources, including data center costs. After that, the organization should start evaluating ICT new technologies because the producers of ICT is currently competing to offer environmentally friendly products, saving power.

Gartner rate, adoption of environmentally friendly technologies will be successful if government support. Gartner explains, policy makers also need to start thinking about the potential for environmentally friendly technologies.