Datacenters has always delivered the necessary performance by increasing the number of drives to offset transactional bottlenecks. However, by doing so this dramatically increases both electricity consumption and storage place. With electricity rising and enterprise hard disk drives at 18W per drive, the cost to run datacenters are getting extremely costly.

Why the need for more efficient drives? Energy consumption and cost. For today’s IT organizations, infrastructure and cooling are two of the biggest issue that they face.