Samsung unveils industry’s largest capacity SSD that allows you to store up to 5700 full HD movies

Samsung has just unveiled the world’s first 2.5-inch SSD, that offers 30.72 terabytes (TB) of storage space which the company says is enough to store 5700 full HD movies.

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Samsung a prominent provider of advanced memory technology has just announced the world's largest-capacity solid state drive (SSD) with a whopping 30.72 terabyte (TB) storage space. Besides, the company has said that it has already begun mass producing the industry's largest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD) - the PM1643 - for use in next-generation enterprise storage systems.

 
Samsung unveils industry’s first SSD with 30TB storage capacity

Leveraging Samsung's latest V-NAND technology with 64-layer, 3-bit 512-gigabit (Gb) chips, the 30.72 terabyte (TB) drive is further said to deliver twice the capacity and performance in comparison to previous 15.36TB high-capacity lineup introduced in March 2016.

 

According to the company, this breakthrough was made possible by combining 32 of the new 1TB NAND flash packages, each comprised of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips. These super-dense 1TB packages allow for approximately 5,700 5-gigabyte (GB), full HD movie files to be stored within a mere 2.5-inch storage device.

Based on a 12Gb/s SAS interface, Samsung has stated that the new "PM1643" drive features 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. These represent approximately four times the random read performance and three times the sequential read performance of a typical 2.5-inch SATA SSD.

"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."

Samsung reached the new capacity and performance enhancements through several technology progressions in the design of its controller, DRAM packaging, and associated software. The company said that the enhanced software supports metadata protection as well as data retention and recovery from sudden power failures, and an error correction code (ECC) algorithm to ensure high reliability and minimal storage maintenance.

Furthermore, the company has claimed that the SSD provides a robust endurance level of one full drive write per day (DWPD), which translates into writing 30.72TB of data every day over the five-year warranty period without failure. The PM1643 also offers a mean time between failures (MTBF) of two million hours.

Samsung has started manufacturing initial quantities of the 30.72TB SSDs in January and has plans to expand the lineup later this year - with 15.36TB, 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 800GB versions - to further drive the growth of all-flash-arrays and accelerate the transition from hard disk drives (HDDs) to SSDs in the enterprise market.

"The wide range of models and much-improved performance will be pivotal in meeting the growing storage needs in a host of market segments, including the government, financial services, healthcare, education, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, social media, business services, retail, and communications sectors," the company has said.

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