14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung has released new solid-state drives based on the latest TLC 3D V-NAND flash memory for enterprises. The South Korean company thinks the new SSDs will offer incredible levels of performance and capacity for the growing enterprise SSD market.
The new SSDs, designed for cloud computing and data storing companies, are built on the latest 48-layer 3D V-NAND triple-level-cell (TLC) technology, with their firmware also built by Samsung. They support the NVMe protocol, have protections against power loss, and boast many other advanced features needed by datacenters.
The first, and fastest of the two, is the PCIe SSD named Samsung PM1725, which comes in a half-height, half-length (HHHL) form factor. It's an enterprise-class SSD built for PCI Express 3.0 x8 interface with the NVMe protocol. It can store 3.2TB or 6.4TB of data and guarantees extreme reliability with five DWPDs (drive writes per day) for at least five years, meaning 32TBs per day.
Performance-wise, the new PCIe SSDs are excellent; they can read data at up to 5500MB/s and write data at up to 1800MB/s. The PM1725 has also a random read speed of one million IOPS (input/output operations per second), while the random writes stand at about 120 thousand IOPS.
Samsung offers a bargain the industry can't refuse
The second newly announced SSD is the PM1633, which comes in a 2.5” form factor and has a SCSI-12Gb/s (SAS-12Gb/s) interface. Although it does not have the extreme speeds of a PCIe SSD like its bigger brother, it can provide read and write speeds of up to 1100MB/s and 1000MB/s, while the random read and write speeds of input/output operations are of up to 60 thousand and 18 thousand IOPS, respectively.
The smaller PM1633 is available in 480GB, 960GB, 1.92TB and 3.84TB versions.
After having announced yesterday that it started the production of 48-Layer 3D V-NAND chips, now Samsung offers its first models based on this new technology.
We must remember that, this way, Samsung just crossed a very important threshold that will definitely kill HDDs' domination in the server and cloud computing industry: affordability.
With the new 48-Layer 3D V-NAND chips being much cheaper, the new premium SSDs are also affected by a new price drop, Samsung thus offering the cheapest NAND flash options in the industry.