World’s Highest Capacity 15TB SSD Is Finally Here — Samsung Starts Shipping PM1633a

Short Bytes: Months after Samsung revealed that it’s working to create a super-sized 3D NAND SSD, the company has launched 15.36TB PM1633a — the world’s highest-capacity solid state drive (SSD). With the help of a highly dependable metadata protection mechanics that allows data protection and restoration, Samsung claims that its drive will help system admins recover from abrupt power interruptions.

Last August, Samsung revealed that it’s working on the a massive capacity solid state drive. On Wednesday, the electronics company announced that it’s now shipping the world’s highest-capacity SSD — the 15.36TB PM1633a.

This monster SSD uses the same 2.5-in form factor as for a laptop. It’s based on a 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface for use in the enterprise storage. Samsung’s PM1633a SSD is specified to deliver impressive performance with sequential read and write speeds reaching 1200MB/s. Add random reads and writes up to 200k IOPS and 32k IOPS respectively, and you’ve got a beast that dominates every other machine in the room.

Backed with 16GB RAM SAS controller, Samsung says that its drive can endure a full drive write per day over its complete lifespan, which means that 15.36TB data can be written on PM1633a every day without failure.

With the help of a highly dependable metadata protection mechanics that allows data protection and restoration, Samsung claims that its drive will help system admins recover from abrupt power interruptions.

“To satisfy an increasing market need for ultra-high-capacity SAS SSDs from leading enterprise storage system manufacturers, we are directing our best efforts toward meeting our customers’ SSD requests,” Jung-bae Lee, senior VP Samsung Electronic’s Application Engineering Team, said in a statement.

The gigantic 15.36TB storage space in a single drive has been made possible with the help of 512 Samsung’s 256Gbit V-NAND/3D NAND memory chips. The ability of 3D NAND cells to store atop another like a multi-storey building doubles the density and improves the performance.

Later this year, along with its top model 15.36TB PM1633a, Samsung will also offer the SSD in 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 480GB versions.

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Meet The World’s Fastest SSD Ever Made — Seagate’s New 10GBps NVMe Drive

Seagate’s previous fastest SSD, Nytro XP6500 flash accelerator card with data transfer rate of 4GBps

Short Bytes: World’s leading storage solutions maker Seagate has announced the world’s fastest SSD. The new OCP compliant storage device supports data transfer up to 10GBps. This new SSD operates at 10GBps and accommodates 16-lane PCIe slots. Apart from this, Seagate is also developing SSD for eight-lane PCIe, which will be the second fastest SSD in the world with 6.7GBps speed. 

Seagate has announced the world’s fastest enterprise-class solid state drive. It supports data transfer rates up to 10 gigabytes per second (GBps) — about 4GBps faster than the previously fastest SSD that operated around 6GBps.

With the growing demands of enterprise that needs data processing at faster rates, more technological advancements are needed. Seagate has been innovating its products and working hard to maintain its position as one of the market leaders in the industry.

World’s fastest SSD by Seagate is OCP Compliant

In its announcement blog post, the company said that the world’s fastest SSD meets the Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications.

For those who don’t know, OCP is a fast growing design-focused community, supported by giants like Microsoft, Facebook, Intel, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America etc. OCP specifications ensure that a new SSD delivers efficient server performance in storage and data center applications.

NVMe Protocol allows faster access to user data

Seagate will be showcasing its demo unit at the OCP Summit later this week. This demo would work with any system that supports the Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) protocol. Notably, this protocol was developed by Seagate and other vendors to replace the SATA standards. If we talk the benefits, NVMe reduces layers of commands to create a faster data transfer and access between flash devices.

This SSD will benefit those organizations that process data for object storage where speed matters the most. These organizations include large-scale cloud providers, web applications, statistical trends analysis, weather modeling etc.

World’s fastest SSD technology that operates at 10GBps, accommodates 16-lane PCIe slots. Apart from this, Seagate is also developing SSD for eight-lane PCIe, which will be the second fastest SSD in the world with 6.7GBps speed.

These SSDs are expected to be generally available this summer.

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