Samsung has showcased its PM1633a SSD with a capacity of 16 TB and the PM1725 SSD, a NVMe drive that is able to reach up to 1M IOPS. The drives were revealed during the Flash Memory Summit currently held in Santa Clara and spotted by the German website Golem.de.
The PM1633A is a SSD that has a capacity of 15.36 TB and is possible thanks to Samsung's latest 256 Gigabit (32GB) V-NAND chip.
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The Korean electronics manufacturer appears to be able to put a large number of these chips in a 2.5" form-factore. In order to get to the 15,360 GB (15.36TB) capacity there need to be 480 chips of 32GB in the PM1633a drive.
To make storage fans drool, Samsung also demonstrated a server with 48 of these SSDs with a combined storage capacity of 768 TB. The system would be able to achieve up to 2,000,000 IOPS.
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Samsung also showcased the PM1725 SSD, a SSD which it claims is the fastest SSD in the world. The drive has a capacity of 3.2TB in a 2.5" or 6.4TB in HHHL form-factor and is able to reach up to 1,000,000 IOPS. The drive connects to the system through the NVMe interface and Samsung claims it has half the latency of a drive connected through the SAS interface.
