14 DAY TRIAL // While MLC Nand Flash chips are most common among consumer SSDs and even some enterprise applications, SLC is far from being ignored and Samsung has just announced a new set of solid state drives that use such chips and the 3.5-inch form factor.
As end-users probably know, solid state drives most commonly come in the 2.5-inch form factor, which lets them enable a higher data density in enterprise applications.
On the consumer front, the 2.5-inch form factor is simply more convenient because it allows them to be used in both desktops as well as laptops.
The new drives that Samsung created, however, use the larger 3.5-inch form factor and, instead of MLC (multi-level cell) NAND chips are built out of 40nm-based SLC (single-level cell) chips.
The newcomers have a random read and write performance of 47,000 and 29,000 IOPS, respectively, and utilize the SATA 3.0 Gbps function.
“By being able to fully meet the rising demand for high-performance and eco-friendly server and storage platforms, SSDs will be able to penetrate the enterprise application market even more rapidly,” said Dong-Soo Jun, executive vice president, memory marketing, Samsung Electronics.
“We will continue to deliver SSD solutions with outstanding performance and low power consumption to provide optimal value for data centers and other enterprise storage environments,” Dong-Soo Jun added.
For those interested in the exact performance numbers, the SLC-based SSDs can achieve a sequential read speed of 260 MB/s and a write speed of 245 MB/s.
What's more, Samsung threw in an 'end-to-end data protection' function and even an advanced encryption algorithm.
"EMC collaborated with Samsung to qualify Samsung's new enterprise-class SSDs for EMC's market-leading midrange storage portfolio," said Joel Schwartz, Sr. Vice President,
There is no mention of pricing, but since mass production is already underway, the new solid state drives should be shipping.