Samsung has started shipping the PM1633a enterprise SSD that has a capacity of 15.36TB. It comes in a 2.5-inch form factor, and Samsung says that it will fit into a standard 19-inch, 2U rack, allowing customers to increase storage capacity and power efficiency as well as reliability and performance.
Samsung says that the performance of PM1633a SSD is up to 1,000 times that of SAS hard drives and the sequential read and write speeds are double that of SATA SSD
The PM1633a SSD offers read and write speeds of up to 200,000 IOPS and 32,000 IOPS respectively, and delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1.2GBps. It also supports 1DWPD (drives write per day), which means that users can write up to 15.36TB of data every day to the drive, without failure.
Other highlights
Later this year, Samsung will offer PM1633a SSD with 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 480GB storage capacity. There is no word on pricing.
- Enabled by combining 512 of Samsung’s 256Gb V-NAND memory chips, stacked in 16 layers to form a single 512GB package, with a total of 32 NAND flash packages in the 15.36TB drive
- 3rd-gen Samsung 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND technology stacks cell-arrays in 48 layers providing significant performance and reliability upgrades from PM1633
- Samsung’s advanced controller units support the 12Gb/s SAS interface, along with a total of 16GB of DRAM.
- Boasts a highly dependable metadata protection mechanism in addition to featuring a data protection and restoration software tool in case of a momentary blackout
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