There is nothing like taking SSD to the next level when it comes to speed, but capacity is a slow-moving wheel. That is except for when it comes to enterprise, as Samsung has just announced the release of a 30.72TB SSD (model: PM1643). Not only has it been announced, but they are mass producing these for enterprise storage systems (ie, servers and data centers mostly) around the world.
The new SSD is made up of 32 packages of 1TB NAND flash, each comprised of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips. It is all packed into the typical 2.5-inch SSD drive style (and about twice the height of a 2.5-inch solution you’d find in a laptop). Samsung points out that you can fit 5,700 HD movies (estimated 5GB/file) on a single drive.
Not only that, but the drives are based on a 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, which is 2x the max capabilities of your typical SATA formats of SSD. Although it, of course, won’t move at these speeds, it does feature sequential read and write speeds of up to 2,100MB/s and 1,700 MB/s (random read and write speeds of up to 400,000 IOPS and 50,000 IOPS), matching it to speeds similar to NVMe SSD options and so much quicker than SATA. .
“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.
Manufacturing for the new 30.72TB SSD began last month and they should start shipping soon. They also plan to expand on the line with 15.36TB, 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 800GB versions as well. This allows something for everyone in enterprise, and you can bet this will pave the way for faster internal software and intraweb solutions for companies, as well as a faster internet for all.
Although you more than likely won’t be getting your hands on one of these unless you work in enterprise, it does give light on what we can expect in the near future as the technology trickles down into their consumer products. It will be nice to see HDD solutions retired and replaced by SSD options, taking over when it comes to capacity while hopefully taking on price range of HDD in the process.
