Samsung Now Shipping 'World's Largest' Hard Drive

Demand a lot of storage? Like, a lot a lot? Samsung has yous covered.

The Korean tech behemothic on Thursday announced information technology has started shipping what it calls the "manufacture'southward largest solid country drive"—the 15.36TB "PM1633a" nosotros beginning heard about in August. To put the size of this affair in perspective, the largest difficult drives made by Seagate and Western Digital top out at 8 to 10TB.

Samsung'southward PM1633a is based on a 12Gb/s Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface, designed for utilize in enterprise storage systems. In a statement, Samsung'due south Senior Vice President of memory product planning and application engineering science, Jung-bae Lee, said Samsung created the bulldoze "to satisfy an increasing market place need for ultra-high-chapters SAS SSDs."

"We are directing our best efforts toward meeting our customers' SSD requests," Lee said. "Nosotros will continue to lead the manufacture with next-generation SSDs, using our avant-garde 3D V-NAND memory engineering science, in order to accelerate the growth of the premium memory market place while delivering greater performance and efficiency to our customers."

Samsung still has not yet revealed how much the massive drive will set you back, but don't expect it to come cheap. The company did mention that it will also release 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB, and 480GB versions later this year, so they should be a tad more than upkeep-friendly.

"The hush-hush sauce behind Samsung'due south 16TB SSD is the visitor's new 256Gbit (32GB) NAND flash dice; twice the capacity of 128Gbit NAND dies that were commercialized past various chip makers last twelvemonth," Ars Technica UK explained in August. "To attain such an astonishing density, Samsung has managed to cram 48 layers of iii-bits-per-cell (TLC) 3D V-NAND into a unmarried die. This is up from 24 layers in 2022, and then 36 layers in 2022."

And the PM1633a? Information technology uses betwixt 480 and 500 of the new NAND flash chips.

Samsung said the bulldoze allows for "significant improvements in the efficiency of IT system investments," offering "random read and write speeds of upward to 200,000 and 32,000 IOPS respectively, and … sequential read and write speeds of up to i,200MB/s."

This commodity originally appeared on PCMag.com.

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