The South Korean giant has launched the industry’s first 24G SAS storage based on 100+ layer vertical NAND
We know Samsung is a leader when it comes to advanced memory technology, and today it has announced the launch of the industry’s highest-performing 24G SAS (SAS-4) SSD ― the PM1653. Based on the latest SAS interface, this new drive can support twice the speed of the previous 12G SAS-3 generation.
“As the leading provider of SAS storage for a decade, Samsung has been offering the most advanced and reliable enterprise solutions in full support of the critical workloads of global server OEMs, governments and financial institutions. Samsung enterprise solutions are also accredited by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology for the most powerful data security,” said Kwangil Park, senior vice president of the Memory Product Planning Team at Samsung Electronics.
“As we have done with the PM1653, Samsung will continue to collaborate with our customers to accommodate the ever-growing demand of the enterprise server market for the most uncompromising offerings available.”
To build a robust 24G SAS ecosystem across the enterprise market, host bus adapter (HBA) system readiness is also essential. This is why Samsung has been closely working with Broadcom to ensure a seamless and timely transition to this new SAS milestone.
“Broadcom values the innovation that 24G SAS products, such as the Samsung SSD PM1653, will bring to the enterprise server market,” said Jas Tremblay, vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom. “The combination of the PM1653 SSD and Broadcom’s next-generation SAS RAID products delivers up to 5X RAID 5 performance, which will be critical to meet the strong demands of the 24G ecosystem.”
The PM1653 is also the industry’s first 24G SAS SSD made with sixth-generation (1xx-layer) V-NAND chips, enabling storage capacities from 800GB to 30.72TB for advanced enterprise server systems. So, this server SSD storage solution can give a record-breaking up to 800K IOPS and sequential read speeds up to 4,300MB/s, which is the maximum available speed for the 24G SAS interface.
This makes the new PM1653 twice as fast as that of the previous-generation PM1643a drive. It uses a dual-port system that will give enterprise server OEMs the flexibility of using one or both ports depending on their system environment.
So even if one port was to experience a failure during operation, data could be transferred and accessed through the other port. Samsung has even started sampling the PM1653 SSD with select customers and plans to begin the mass production in the second half of this year.
via Samsung Newsroom
