HGST Ships NVM Express™ Compliant Solid-State Drives With Industry-Leading Performance For Cloud And Enterprise Applications

SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ -- 2015 Percona Live MySQL Conference and Expo (Booth #202) – Helping the world harness the power of data, HGST (@HGSTStorage), a Western Digital company (NASDAQ: WDC), today announced it is shipping its NVMe compliant Ultrastar SN100 Series PCIe SSDs – the industry's highest-performing NVMe compliant SSDs. Ideally suited for mission-critical data center workloads, including scale-out databases powering today's largest online and cloud services, the HGST SN100 series enables businesses to achieve a better return on their data center infrastructure investments by realizing gains such as more database transactions per second, lower access latency and easier application scaling.

The new HGST PCIe SSDs are a key building block for delivering HGST server-side Flash solutions. In these solutions, the Ultrastar SN100 Series SSDs are combined with HGST server software – specifically, the HGST Flash Software Suite and HGST Device Manager. This powerful combination creates a server-side Flash platform solution with superior TCO that delivers clustering, scalability, high availability and manageability for performance applications. For MySQL, HGST's server-side Flash solutions have delivered up to 40 percent server consolidation with up to 60 percent performance improvement while maintaining existing MySQL architectures.¹