Samsung Introduces World’s Largest Capacity (15.36TB) SSD

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Link: Samsung Introduces World’s Largest Capacity (15.36TB) SSD for Enterprise Storage Systems | Samsung Newsroom

 

 

Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced that it is now shipping the industry’s largest solid state drive (SSD) – the “PM1633a,” a 15.36 terabyte (TB) drive...

[DalekSec]

Seeing how much a normal 1TB SSD costs, I dread to see the price of this!

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Seeing how much a normal 1TB SSD costs, I dread to see the price of this!

 

Link: Samsung Unwraps PM1633a, A 16TB SSD With Hefty Tag Price: What Are The Affordable SSD Options Available? : PERSONAL TECH : Tech Times

 

...The company has yet to offer any pricing details for its new PM1633a SSD, but it's safe to assume it won't come cheap. In fact, it may cost upwards of $5,000...

[Arthur]

it may cost upwards of $5,000.

If it ends up being cheaper than Intel's 4TB DC P3608 SSD ($9,000 / £6,914.05 + VAT) then it will be a bargain.

[Arthur]

I dread to see the price of this!

Only $10,311.99 (~£7,797 ex. VAT) for the 15TB model and $5,729.99 (~£4,332.53 ex. VAT) for the 7.68TB model.

 

Samsung’s PM1633a Now Available: $10k for 15 TB, $6k for 7 TB

 

Samsung started to ship its PM1633a SSD with 15.36 TB capacity to select customers in March and recently it began to supply the drive to select resellers as well. The enterprise-class SSD is now offered by two U.S.-based retailers and can be purchased for ~$10,000, which makes it one of the world’s most expensive commercial solid-state drives. Meanwhile, Samsung officially expanded its PM1633a family of SSDs with many lower-capacity models and has begun to ship the 7.68 TB version to at least one reseller.

 

The Samsung PM1633a drives are based on the company’s third-generation 256 Gb TLC 3D V-NAND memory chips introduced last year. Samsung stacks 16 of such ICs to form a single 512 GB package and then uses 32 of them to build its flagship 15.36 TB SSD, leaving about 1 TB of NAND flash for overprovisioning. Typically, high-capacity SSDs do not provide very high performance, because of peculiarities of their internal architecture and limitations of contemporary controllers (which cannot simultaneously access many high-density chips, or multiple controllers in a RAID-0 stripe configuration). To speed up its most spacious PM1633a drive, Samsung had to develop a new proprietary controller that can concurrently access large amounts of high-density NAND flash with the help of a special firmware. For its flagship PM1633a 15.36 TB SSD, the manufacturer declares sequential read performance up to 1200 MB/s as well as sequential write performance up to 900 MB/s using the SAS-12Gbps interface. As for random read and write operations, the 15.36 TB SSD can deliver up to 195,000 and 31,000 IOPS respectively (which is slightly lower than the company advertised back in March).

Edited July 30, 2016 by Arthur

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Only $10,311.99 (~£7,797 ex. VAT) for the 15TB model and $5,729.99 (~£4,332.53 ex. VAT) for the 7.68TB model.

 

Samsung’s PM1633a Now Available: $10k for 15 TB, $6k for 7 TB

 

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[Michael]

Isn't this a world first also that SSD capacities exceeds the traditional/rotational hard drive capacity? This could be the tipping point - yes it's expensive, but goes to show what's possible

[Arthur]

This could be the tipping point - yes it's expensive, but goes to show what's possible

Seagate have just massively outdone Samsung by announcing a 60TB 3.5" SAS SSD. Wow!

 

www.storagereview.com/seagate_announces_60tb_sas_ssd

 

Today at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, California Seagate Technology made two big announcements: they announced a 60TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid-state-drive (SSD) and a new 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD. The 60TB SSD is currently the largest SSD to be demonstrated.

 

Data continues to grow with no end in site. While data centers too are growing at a fast rate, and becoming larger and larger, most companies prefer a way to increase density versus building new data centers. The new 60TB SAS SSD from Seagate aims to address these issues with a capacity that is four times larger than the next highest-capacity SSD currently available. 60TB is enough capacity to store 400 million photos on a typical social media platform, or 12,000 DVD movies. The drive comes in 3.5” form factor, taking up the same space as a current HDD.

 

To help keep the cost per gigabyte lower, the new 60TB SAS SSD uses single controller architecture. The new drive also accommodates both hot and cold data helping simplify the setup of different types of storage for different types of data. In other words, hot and cold data can be stored on the same drive in the same server with no need to add additional management steps. Seagate goes on to state that the new drive’s flexible architecture provides a pathway for data centers to continue to grow from the current capacity of 60TB to 100TB or more in the future.

 

 

... as well as the world's fastest SSD which has R/W speeds of 10GB/s and 3.6GB/s respectively.

 

While storing massive data is an issue companies are struggling with, it is one of many. Another big issue is having storage that has the performance that is required by some applications. Seagate’s answer to this is its new 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD. The new drive is designed to tackle the requirements of high performance computing, scale-out databases and big data analytics, such as scientific research and weather modeling. First feature back in March as the world’s fastest SSD, The XP7200 uses a single PCIe interface for high-speed data transfers and four separate controllers. Seagate claims that this enables the drive to have four times the processing power of comparable drives without the higher cost, power levels, and latency required from a PCIe switch or bridge. They go on to state that this new technology can easily integrate into all-flash arrays.

 

Isn't this a world first also that SSD capacities exceeds the traditional/rotational hard drive capacity?

Some companies like Dropbox are already using 14TB (and possibly larger?) HDDs so it's hard to tell.

Edited August 10, 2016 by Arthur

[gady]

well... samsung got pwnd

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well... samsung got pwnd

 

Well, it's been about 5 months, but true.

Just need them to come down a lot, then I might think about getting one.

[Arthur]

well... Samsung got pwnd

... and Seagate too!

 

Toshiba flashes 100TB QLC flash drive, may go on sale within months. Really

 

After Seagate tantalized us with a 60TB SSD, along comes Toshiba with a 100TB QLC SSD concept.

 

Flash Memory Summit attendees saw Toshiba presenters put flesh on the bones and envisage a QLC 3D SSD with a PCIe gen 3 interface and more than 100TB of capacity. It would have 3GB/sec sequential read bandwidth and 1GB/sec sequential write bandwidth.

 

It would do random reading and writing at 50,000 and 14,000 IOPS respectively. The active state power consumption would be 9 watts, the same as a 3.5-inch, 8TB SATA 6Gbit/s disk drive, while the idle power consumption be less than 100 mWatts, compared to the disk drive’s 8 watts.

 

Twelve 8TB nearline disks would offer 96TB of capacity and need 96 watts when idling, versus a single QLC 100TB SSD needing 0.1 watts. That would provide such a lower TCO for a QLC flash archive that it could justify an expensive acquisition cost.

 

Samsung also announced a 32TB 2.5" SAS SSD at the same event which is also quite impressive.

 

Samsung crams 32TB SSD into a 2.5-inch drive, aims for 100TB by 2020

 

Samsung has unveiled its 32TB SSD in a 2.5-inch form factor for the enterprise, and thinks it can attain 100TB capacity within the next four years.

 

The Korean company's 32TB Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) SSD doubles the capacity of its PM1633a, which was billed by Samsung last year as the world's largest SSD.

 

It held the crown until this week when Seagate showed off its gigantic 60TB SSD in a 3.5-inch form factor, although Seagate hasn't confirmed whether it will be commercially available.

 

Vendors are cramming more capacity into SSDs to support growing demand for high-performance computing and analytics at the datacenter.

 

Samsung expects its new 32TB SSD to be produced in 2017, setting the stage for a three-fold increase by 2020 when Samsung plans to be making SSDs with a 100TB capacity. The 32TB SSD consists of 32 1TB packages each of which contains 512 V-NAND chips stacked in 16 layers.

 

The 32TB SSD uses Samsung's fourth-generation 3D V-NAND flash memory, which stacks 64 layers of cell-arrays, offering a boost on its previous generation 48-layer V-NAND. The new flash memory features a 64GB chip with an IO speed of 800Mbps.

 

Samsung says it will begin mass-producing its fourth-generation V-NAND flash-memory products in the fourth quarter, which should help portable-device manufacturers.

 

The Korean company also revealed a 1TB ball grid array (BGA) design SSD, which at one gram in weight, is aimed at compact laptops, tablets and convertible devices. The package delivers sequential read speeds of 1,500MB/s and write speeds of 900MB/s.

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Nimbus data: "Hold my beer"

 

100TB SSD

 

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12541/unlimited-5-year-endurance-100-tb-ssd