Samsung announced the production of the PM1643, a 30.72TB SSD.
Samsung ElectronicsSamsung has begun production of a massive 30.72TB solid state drive called the PM1643, the Korean giant announced on Tuesday. Intended for use in next-generation storage systems in the government, health care and education sectors, it is now the industry’s largest capacity SSD in production.
Using Samsung’s V-NAND technology with 64-layer, 512-gigabit chips, the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) drive offers twice the capacity and performance of Samsung’s previous 15.36TB lineup, unveiled in March 2016.
The 2.5-inch PM1643 was created by combining 32 1-terabyte NAND flash packages, each made up of 16 stacked layers of 512Gb V-NAND chips. These 1TB packages can store approximately 5,700 full HD movie files. Samsung claims the new drive has sequential read and write speeds of up to 2,100MBps and 1,700MBps, respectively.
The PM1643 claims a mean time between failures (MTBF) of 2 million hours. Samsung began manufacturing of the 30.72TB SSD in January and plans to expand the lineup later this year, with 15.36TB, 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 800GB versions.
