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EMC has extended its range of solid-state disk storage with the launch of two ‘Enterprise Flash’ drives with 200GB and 400GB capacities.

The drives can be used in the company’s high-end Symmetrix DMX-4 and mid-range Clarrion storage systems, as well as EMC’s Celerra unified-storage systems, the company said on Wednesday.

According to EMC, flash drives are well suited to high-priority, ‘Tier 0′ applications, such as those found in the banking and finance industries where trades need to be executed in fractions of a second. The company claims that its drives can process between 6,000 and 10,000 transactions per second.

ZDNet UK asked EMC how much its Enterprise Flash drives cost, but the company did not divulge that information. Compared with traditional storage, solid-state drives (SSDs) are very expensive, so organisations that want to exploit their capabilities have to use SSDs efficiently — according to analysts at Gartner, this is not a straightforward process.

I wonder how much more efficient these new solid-state drives are, how the compare in terms of availability and performance. I’ll need to read up more and check them out.

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