Samsung Electronics has just unveiled two new lines of solid-state drives that are faster and more fail-proof than other products out in the market.
The new Samsung PM1733 and PM1735 series of SSDs take advantage of the PCIe 4.0 interface, which was launched earlier this year.
These SSDs will be offered to the public in 19 different models that cover both the card-type half height-half length (HHHL) and 2.5-inch U.2 formats. They have storage capacities between 0.8 TB and 30.72 TB and are primarily designed for use in servers and data centers.
Samsung hopes to usher in a new paradigm in SSD performance with the release of the PM1733 and PM1735.
"We are combining breakthrough speeds and capacities with revolutionary software solutions as we accelerate expansion in the premium SSD market," said Kye Hyun Kyung, Samsung's Executive VP of Memory Solution Product and Development.
"We plan to introduce additional innovation led by our most advanced (sixth-generation) V-NAND in helping to trigger a lot more growth in the global IT market."
Following The PCIe 4.0 Standard
The PM1733 and PM1735 series' PCIe 4.0 standard is built upon the fourth generation Peripheral Component Interconnect Express motherboard interface. Samsung claims both SSD series have speeds that are twice those seen in Gen3 models.
For instance, the 12.8TB PCIe Gen4 NVMe SSD (PM1735) has 14 times the sequential performance of a regular SATA-based SSD, with up to 8 GB per second for reading and 3.8 GB per second for writing operations.
Read operations with the new Samsung SSD series can reach random speeds of up to 1,450,000 IOPS, while write operations can get up to 260,000 IOPS.
Additionally, the PM1733 SSD provides single and dual-port options to support both server and storage applications. Models based on the series can also handle multi-stream writes as well as single root input/output virtualization.
Software Innovations Included In The New Samsung SSD Series
Samsung's new PM1733 and PM1735 SSD series come with three core software innovations to help them perform well in ultra-high-capacity data centers.
The company's fail-in-place (FIP) software is designed to keep SSDs operating normally even if they encounter errors at the chip level. This feature is invaluable since most other SSDs fail even when they suffer only a single error in their NAND chips.
Integrating the FIP technology with SSDs allows systems to address issues on their own by detecting faulty chips, scanning damaged data, and relocating data into functioning chips.
Meanwhile, the SSD virtualization technology allows the PM1733 and PM1735 to subdivide a single SSD into 64 smaller SSDs. This provides server administrators to create multiple independent, virtual workspaces for several users.
Cloud storage providers can also utilize the SSD virtualization feature to extend their services to a greater number of clients using the same amount of resources. This can be done to promote optimized product competitiveness.
The V-NAND machine learning technology is designed to predict and verify cell characteristics accurately. The software also allows detection of variations in circuit patterns through the use of big data analytics. Both features help ensure that the PM1733 and PM1735 maintain their superior data reliability despite high SSD speeds.
