Samsung announced that its 32 and 64 GB solid state drives have been selected for the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server. The use of SSDs gives some advantages like less physical space used, which means that more DDRAM can be added, making the system’s performance even greater. HP announced that the ProLiant BL495c will have 16 DDRAM sockets. Another advantage is that SSDs are faster than hard drives, consume less power and, ultimately, have higher performances. The reason why SSD’s are faster than hard drives is because there is no seek time involved when dealing with data.

Samsung’s SSD can read 100 Mb per second and has a write speed of 80 Mb per second and power consumption wise, the device only manages to use 0.5 watts in active mode and 0.1 watts in sleep mode. The fact that this wonderful device was designed is no surprise for anyone, as Samsung is the global leader in semiconductors, telecommunications, digital media and digital convergence technologies managing to sell $103.4 billion in merchandise.

This new agreement with HP will be a great hit for rival company Intel, as this will propels Samsung even further to the top. Samsung SSD’s are way better than the old hard drive and they will be used for general configuration storage, which makes the system be a lot faster, more reliable and even lighter. And along with the 16 slots of DDRAM to be used up, the ProLiant BL495c will certainly be one of the fastest server blades out there.