14 DAY TRIAL // Samsung has just unveiled the world’s largest 2.5-inch SSD, offering no less than 30.72 terabytes (TB), enough to store 5700 full HD movies, as the company says.
Called PM1643, the new Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) is primarily aimed at enterprises, so it won’t be used on consumer PCs anytime soon. Samsung, however, says this is just the first product of an entirely-new lineup of SSDs with a 2.5-inch form factor, as it also plans 5.36TB, 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 800GB versions later this year.
In a press release (embedded below), Samsung explains that creating the world’s largest SSD was possible thanks to a combination of 32 1TB NAND flash packages, which in their turn are made of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips.
Super-fast data transfer
Performance-wide, the new SSD is quite impressive. It can reach random read and write speeds of up to 400,000 IOPS and 50,000 IOPS, and sequential read and write speeds of up to 2,100MB/s and 1,700 MB/s, respectively, according to official figures.
It goes without saying that Samsung was super-happy to being mass production of the new SSD, so the company praised the device and its efforts to accelerate the switch from HDD to SSD in the enterprise.
“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.”
Previously, the world’s largest SSD was announced by Seagate with 60TB, but it used a 3.5-inch form factor and it never entered mass production.