Hitachi's new Accelerated Flash storage modules provide higher performance, greater capacity and lower cost per bit, company officials claimed.

The modules uses Hitachi's own flash memory controller which was announced earlier this year.

Hitachi Accelerated Flash features inline write compression for faster writes and improved flash endurance.

Hitachi officials claimed the modules provide four times better performance, lower power consumption, improved density, and up to 46% lower cost per bit than conventional 400GB MLC SSDs.

The new modules work with all Hitachi VSP features, and a new 8U flash chassis allows the use of more than 300TB of flash per VSP system.

Roberto Basilio, Hitachi Data Systems' vice president for infrastructure platforms product management, said "Hitachi Accelerated Flash storage is the first flash device that is optimised for the performance and reliability required for mission-critical applications.

"These applications include OLTP databases, ERP, financial data management, metadata and indexing.

"Because of the innovative multi-core flash controller technology from Hitachi, we are able to use multi-level cell flash in enterprise applications by extending MLC endurance and exceeding the performance of single-level cell flash.

"The result is the lowest cost per bit of any enterprise MLC flash solution on the market today."