Samsung Launches 8TB SSD for Data Center. Look Here!

Samsung Launches 8TB SSD for Data Center

Recently, larger capacity SSD is getting more and more popular among computer users since it can store more and more data and files. Thus, Samsung launches a new type of SSD whose capacity reach up to 8TB. And the footprint of 8TB SSD is just 11cm x 3.05cm. However, it is twice capacity offering by the previous M.2 standard.

And the new type of NF1 8TB SSD will replace the conventional 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs. Its system density is three times than the existing server infrastructure.

Besides the large capacity, the new kind of NF1 8TB SSD also has good read and write performance. The sequential read speeds of NF1 8TB SSD reach up to 3100MB one second. And the sequential write speeds of NF1 8TB SSD are 2000MB one second. The read and write speeds are five and three times of the common SATA SSD.

The random speeds are at 500,000 IOPS for reading operations and 50,000 for writes. So from the above data, we can find the NF1 8TB SSD also has good performance besides the capacity. In addition, the NF1 8TB SSD can enable enterprise server systems to perform more than one million IOPS in a 2U rack space.

Samsung company also says that it will launch a 512GB version in the second half of this year for even faster processing power.

Here, compared with HDD, SSD has fewer advantages on capacity and price. WHY?

As a matter of fact, there are many reasons leading to the above situation. The main reasons are internal structure and manufacture technology. Different from the HDD, solid state drive are integrated circuit storage. And the internal structure is composed of Master, flash memory particles and cache. And the flash particles account for 70%~80% of the production cost of SSD.

The early flash particles adopt 2D NAND Flash, which is flash structure and the unit density is small. That means that it is difficult to increase the per unit capacity. The only way to increase the capacity of SSD is to increase the number of flash particles on the small PCB board. However, this way will lead to increase the SSD cost.

Lacking parity master is another reason. The 3D NAND flash can’t be produced in a short time, which becomes an important factor in restricting the development of the large capacity of SSD.

However, there is more and more master to support large capacity SSD nowadays, such as the PS3112-S12 master. This master supports SATA SSD and supports 3D NAND flash, and the largest capacity can reach up to 8TB.

And Samsung firstly adopts S12 master to open the large capacity SSD journey. So it has launched the NF1 8TB SSD.

And nowadays, more and more large capacities SSDs are launched since it can store more and more data and files. Of course, if you want to upgrade or migrate operating system to a larger SSD, MiniTool Partition Wizard can help you and would not bring any damage to the original data.

Conclusion

From this news, you can find the information that the Samsung has launched a new type of NF1 SSD and some reasons of SSD can’t be produced in large capacity extensively.