Viking Technology Ships Industry’s Highest Capacity 50TB Solid State Drive

Viking Technology Ships Industry’s Highest Capacity 50TB Solid State Drive

New UHC-Silo 25TB & 50TB SAS SSD targets datacenter and cloud infrastructure applications

SAN JOSE, CA – July 11, 2017 – Viking Technology, a division of Sanmina Corporation (Nasdaq: SANM), today unveiled its new Silo Solid State Drive, a SSD that delivers flash performance with the industry’s highest capacity (50TB). The Silo SSD, part of the Ultra High-Capacity (UHC) family of Viking products, enables significant data center space and power reduction compared to HDDs, while offering the same 3.5” form factor and standard SAS interface, easing the migration to flash.

Viking Technology’s UHC-Silo SSD series, powered by a next generation flash processor, balances performance, capacity, cost, and energy efficiency, making it ideal for applications such as cloud computing, big data, external storage systems, digital imaging and media, technical applications and cold storage. At 25TB and 50TB capacities, the UHC-Silo SSD products are the highest capacity solid state drives shipping today.

Purpose built for energy efficiency, the UHC-Silo SSD offers idle power consumption under 10 watts and active power usage of only 16W, greatly increasing overall storage capacity per rack while decreasing power per terabyte. Datacenters looking to transition to a plug-and-play UHC-Silo SSD can realize cost savings in power, space, and cooling of up to 80% per terabyte.

“Some system administrators are looking for a way to extend the useful life of existing hardware, since it may function perfectly but support too little overall capacity,” said Jim Handy of research firm Objective Analysis. “With ultra-high-capacity SSDs, not only can they reach beyond the capacity limits of enterprise HDDs, but they can cut power and improve performance without having to replace the entire system, but by implementing a simple media change.”

“There is no higher capacity SSD solution in the market than the UHC-Silo SSD” said Hamid Shokrgozar, President, Viking Technology. “These drives enable datacenter administrators to easily migrate to SSD performance, along with a tremendous increase in capacity. With space and cooling being critical drivers for todays datacenters, these advantages are a game changer.”