Samsung has constantly fielded among the greatest SSDs available on the market, with options to satiate efficiency, worth, and capability wants. The South Korean firm this week unveiled a brand new SSD that takes capability to the acute with a 128TB SSD to drive petabyte-scale storage.
Understandably, the SSD makes use of quad-level cell (QLC) NAND to attain this monumental degree of storage together with an NVMe PCIe interface. In response to Blocks and Recordsdata, the SSD has two PCBs inside, which maintain the NAND flash and the SSD controller. These PCBs talk by way of a ribbon cable. The placard for the SSD additionally says that it helps quantity high quality of service (QoS), zone administration, and computational storage.
“The brand new answer will permit a single server unit to pack a couple of petabyte of storage, enabling server producers to sharply improve their storage capability throughout the similar flooring area with a minimal variety of servers,” mentioned Samsung in a press launch (opens in new tab) speaking about advances in petabyte storage. “Excessive server utilization can even assist to decrease energy consumption.”
It’s attention-grabbing to notice that Samsung first confirmed off a 128TB SAS SSD manner again in 2017. That product additionally used QLC NAND, albeit with a 1TB die dimension. At this time, firms like Micron are already pushing the 2TB per chip barrier with 232-layer NAND.
Samsung isn’t the one firm pushing boundaries with SSD storage for the enterprise market. For instance, Nimbus launched its 100TB 3.5-inch SATA SSD two years in the past, initially priced at a staggering $40,000. Nonetheless, the Nimbus SSD’s efficiency would pale compared to Samsung’s new 128GB monster because it tops out with sequential reads/writes of 500 MBps and random reads/writes of 114,000 IOPS and 106,000 IOPS, respectively.
Sadly, Samsung didn’t announce pricing or availability for the brand new 128TB SSD. Nonetheless, the corporate’s 32TB PM1643a 2.5-inch SAS SSD will set you again over $7,000 — and quadrupling the storage gained’t come low-cost.
