A number of firms supply high-capacity SSDs, however till not too long ago, solely two firms supplied high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm and Western Digital. As our colleagues from Blocks & Information found, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs primarily based on the identical platform.
Samsung’s BM1743 61.44 TB includes a proprietary controller and depends on Samsung’s 7th Era V-NAND (3D NAND) QLC reminiscence. Furthermore, Samsung believes that its 7th Gen V-NAND ‘has the potential to accommodate as much as 122.88 TB,’
Samsung plans to supply the BM1743 in two kind components: U.2 for PCIe 4.0 x4 to deal with conventional servers and E3.S for PCIe 5.0 x4 interfaces to deal with machines designed to supply most storage density. BM1743 can deal with varied functions, together with AI coaching and inference, content material supply networks, and read-intensive workloads. To that finish, its write endurance is 0.26 drive writes per day (DWPD) over 5 years.
Relating to efficiency, Samsung’s BM1743 is hardly a champion in comparison with high-end drives for gaming machines and workstations. The drive can sustainably obtain sequential learn speeds of seven,200 MB/s and write speeds of two,000 MB/s. It might deal with as much as 1.6 million 4K random reads and 110,000 4K random writes for random operations.
Energy consumption particulars for the BM1743 haven’t been disclosed, although it’s anticipated to be excessive. In the meantime, the drive’s key promoting level is its huge storage density, which doubtless outweighs issues over its absolute energy effectivity for meant functions, as a 60 TB SSD nonetheless consumes lower than a number of storage units providing comparable capability and efficiency.
As famous above, Samsung’s BM1743 61.44 TB faces restricted competitors out there, so its worth shall be fairly excessive. For instance, Solidigm’s D5-P5336 61.44 TB SSD prices $6,905. Different firms, corresponding to Kioxia, Micron, and SK Hynix, haven’t but launched their 60TB-class SSDs, which supplies Samsung and Solidigm an edge for now.
