Thursday, March 3rd 2016
Samsung Introduces World's Highest Capacity Enterprise SSD - 15.36 TB
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., the world leader in advanced memory technology, announced today that it is now shipping the industry's largest solid state drive (SSD) - the "PM1633a," a 15.36 terabyte (TB) drive. First revealed at the 2015 Flash Memory Summit in August, the 15.36TB SSD is based on a 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, for use in enterprise storage systems. Because the PM1633a comes in a 2.5-inch form factor, enterprise storage managers can fit twice as many of the drives in a standard 19-inch, 2U rack, compared to an equivalent 3.5-inch storage drive
"To satisfy an increasing market need for ultra-high-capacity SAS SSDs from leading enterprise storage system manufacturers, we are directing our best efforts toward meeting our customers' SSD requests," said Jung-bae Lee, Senior Vice President, Memory Product Planning and Application Engineering Team, Samsung Electronics. "We will continue to lead the industry with next-generation SSDs, using our advanced 3D V-NAND memory technology, in order to accelerate the growth of the premium memory market while delivering greater performance and efficiency to our customers."
The unprecedented 15.36TB of data storage on a single SSD is enabled by combining 512 of Samsung's 256Gb V-NAND memory chips. The 256Gb dies are stacked in 16 layers to form a single 512GB package, with a total of 32 NAND flash packages in the 15.36TB drive. Utilizing Samsung's 3rd generation, 256-gigabit (Gb) V-NAND technology which stacks cell-arrays in 48 layers, the PM1633a line-up provides significant performance and reliability upgrades from its predecessor, the PM1633, which used Samsung's 2nd generation, 32-layer, 128Gb V-NAND memory.
Samsung's new PM1633a SSD provides the opportunity for significant improvements in the efficiency of IT system investments through its high storage capacity and exceptional performance. These performance gains stem from Samsung's latest vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash technology, as well as the company's proprietary controller and firmware technology.
The PM1633a SSD sports random read and write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 IOPS respectively, and delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,200MB/s. The random read IOPS performance is approximately 1,000 times that of SAS-type hard disks, while the sequential read and write speeds are over twice those of a typical SATA SSD. Inside the new SSD lie Samsung's advanced controller units that support the 12Gb/s SAS interface, along with a total of 16GB of DRAM. Samsung also uses specially designed firmware that can access large amounts of high-density NAND flash concurrently.
The 15.36TB PM1633a drive supports 1 DWPD (drive writes per day), which means 15.36TB of data can be written every day on this single drive without failure, a level of reliability that will improve cost of ownership for enterprise storage systems. This drive can write from two to ten times as much data as typical SATA SSDs based on planar MLC and TLC NAND flash technologies.
Further, the drive boasts a highly dependable metadata protection mechanism in addition to featuring a data protection and restoration software tool in case of a momentary blackout, which make enterprise systems more stable and manageable.
Starting with the 15.36TB density, Samsung will provide a wide range of capacity options in its PM1633a SSD line-up - 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960-gigabyte (GB) and 480GB later this year. With more choices in storage capacity, Samsung is reinforcing the competitiveness in its SAS SSD line-up. The Samsung PM1633a SSD line-up is expected to rapidly become the overwhelming favorite over hard disks for enterprise storage systems.
"To satisfy an increasing market need for ultra-high-capacity SAS SSDs from leading enterprise storage system manufacturers, we are directing our best efforts toward meeting our customers' SSD requests," said Jung-bae Lee, Senior Vice President, Memory Product Planning and Application Engineering Team, Samsung Electronics. "We will continue to lead the industry with next-generation SSDs, using our advanced 3D V-NAND memory technology, in order to accelerate the growth of the premium memory market while delivering greater performance and efficiency to our customers."
Samsung's new PM1633a SSD provides the opportunity for significant improvements in the efficiency of IT system investments through its high storage capacity and exceptional performance. These performance gains stem from Samsung's latest vertical NAND (V-NAND) flash technology, as well as the company's proprietary controller and firmware technology.
The PM1633a SSD sports random read and write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 IOPS respectively, and delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1,200MB/s. The random read IOPS performance is approximately 1,000 times that of SAS-type hard disks, while the sequential read and write speeds are over twice those of a typical SATA SSD. Inside the new SSD lie Samsung's advanced controller units that support the 12Gb/s SAS interface, along with a total of 16GB of DRAM. Samsung also uses specially designed firmware that can access large amounts of high-density NAND flash concurrently.
The 15.36TB PM1633a drive supports 1 DWPD (drive writes per day), which means 15.36TB of data can be written every day on this single drive without failure, a level of reliability that will improve cost of ownership for enterprise storage systems. This drive can write from two to ten times as much data as typical SATA SSDs based on planar MLC and TLC NAND flash technologies.
Further, the drive boasts a highly dependable metadata protection mechanism in addition to featuring a data protection and restoration software tool in case of a momentary blackout, which make enterprise systems more stable and manageable.
Starting with the 15.36TB density, Samsung will provide a wide range of capacity options in its PM1633a SSD line-up - 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960-gigabyte (GB) and 480GB later this year. With more choices in storage capacity, Samsung is reinforcing the competitiveness in its SAS SSD line-up. The Samsung PM1633a SSD line-up is expected to rapidly become the overwhelming favorite over hard disks for enterprise storage systems.
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And it is a 2.5" drive... not 3.5"
Anyways this is for big company's were space and speed is required and not for people like us but one thing for sure it shows whats coming.
And as for Crucial they don't make probably any thing but the sticker.
Still there are issues that many consumers may have which would make conventional HDD more favorable depending on the situation. For example I would consider a 4TB, 6TB or 8TB HDD more economical and useful (then a 2TB SDD at ~$500 USD) in my Server 2012 Essentials box or Synology NAS. I need the capacity and while SSDs can support TRIM in a RAID 0 array (scary RAID) with Intel controller I've heard of no such support for other implementations of RAID that have redundantcy. If the garbage collection is so good that it doesn't really need TRIM over time then that is great but if not then that is a problem.
What I think this shows though is that an SSD can easily break new ground with respect to capacity that conventional HDDs struggle to reach,....struggle and fail, helium filled of no.
And we won't see a large shift to SSDs until SSDs are basically as cheap as HDDs so the major computer manufacturers like Dell and HP start putting SSDs in their large volume inexpensive products.
Until that happens, SSDs will still be mostly an enthusiast product, not mainstream.
Just takes Crucial/micron products and fixes the fw.
Well that's all good i have always had a soft spot for Micron, they done some of the best DDR ram chips.
:oops:
Crucial is the consumer front of micron.
Micron and crucial makes shitty ass firmware...
The warm spot in your heart is entirely undeserved.
Micron tries to sell them for enterprise workloads and they are shit for them.
The gc cycle for your m500 there... checks for idle over a 3 minute span by looking at disk usage at 3 points... if it is idle at those 3 points it has to have been idle for the entire time in-between... and kicks off gc that drops you to <100 iops.
So yes, shitty ass firmware.
The hardware is fine, plextor proves that... Micron just needs to buy them to replace their stock fw teams.
I have seen no personal evidence in my own use or heard of any problems from people I have equipped with Crucials.
And I told you your workload is not hard enough to expose it.
I didn't tell you to get rid of them... I told you they write shitty fw that is not suitable for anything other than a read workload with burst writes.... which consequently is all consumer drives are expected of most of the time.
If you thrash them... they will get fucky... just go look at the anandtech benches if you want public knowledge... but you seem to deal in anecdote not facts.
I will not use them personally because of working with then b2b... I do not, not recommend them for consumer workloads... they are cheap adequate READ drives, that simply cannot handle being thrashed and are not backed by the company that sells them.
I never said the sky is falling... I just know more about the inner workings of your own drives than you do.
on a side note, very odd capacity. 15.36tb?