Samsung Electronics has announced that it has begun mass production of the world's biggest Serial Attached SCSI solid state drive, with a capacity of 30.72TB.
A statement said the device would use the company's latest V-NAND technology with 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit chips to deliver twice the capacity and performance of the previous 15.36TB high-capacity line-up introduced in March 2016.
“With our launch of the 30.72TB SSD, we are once again shattering the enterprise storage capacity barrier, and in the process, opening up new horizons for ultra-high capacity storage systems worldwide,” said Jaesoo Han, executive vice-president, Memory Sales & Marketing Team at Samsung Electronics.
“Samsung will continue to move aggressively in meeting the shifting demand toward SSDs over 10TB and at the same time, accelerating adoption of our trail-blazing storage solutions in a new age of enterprise systems.”
{loadposition sam08}The company said the 30TB device was made possible by combining 32 of the new 1TB NAND flash packages, each comprised of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips.
These super-dense 1TB packages allowed for approximately 5700 five-gigabyte, full HD movie files to be stored within a 2.5-inch storage device.
Based on a 12Gb/s SAS interface, the new PM1643 drive is claimed to feature random read and write speeds of up to 400,000 IOPS and 50,000 IOPS, and sequential read and write speeds of up to 2100MB/s and 1700 MB/s, respectively.
These speeds are about four times the random read performance and three times the sequential read performance of a typical 2.5-inch SATA SSD.
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