There has been a lot of discussion about the issues surrounding boot drives in the hyperscale space over the past several years. While hyperscalers don’t want to spend too much on them, they need a basic minimum performance threshold among other necessary specifications.
Inspur has released the second generation of their Solid State Drive (SSD) the NS8500, a PCIe Gen4 x4 -based enterprise controller architecture, utilizing 112L 3D eTLC NAND technology. The Inspur SSD NS8500 G2 supports NVMe 1.4 and is designed for read-intensive applications.
Silicon Motion previously announced their MonTitan PCIe Gen5 platform (with the SM8366 SSD controller) back in July, a new high-performance, user-programmable platform designed for demanding data center and enterprise SSD solutions. It’s based on the OCP Data Center NVMe SSD and NVMe 2.0 specifications. Now, during a live demo at the 2022 Open Compute Project
The DapuStor R5100 is part of the company’s R5 Series line of enterprise-grade PCIe Gen4 SSDs, which are purpose-built for core data storage scenarios in fields like enterprise IT, logistics, Internet, finance, intelligent manufacturing, and AI. Powered by the DapuStor DPU600 controller firmware and KIOXIA’s latest 3D enterprise 112L TLC NAND, the DapuStor SSD features
Phison has announced its new X1 advanced controller-based SSD platform designed to tackle enterprise workloads with high durability requirements. Featuring SK hynix V6 128L TLC NAND, the X1 was built in partnership with Seagate Technology to meet the demands of faster and smarter global data-center infrastructures.
About two years ago, we did a head-to-head showdown between two popular enterprise-grade SSDs: the Intel P5510 vs. the Samsung PM9A3—both of which have a solid following in the data center. Since then, Intel has spun its SSD business to a new company called Solidigm, a company backed by SK hynix. And now we’re taking
Silicon Motion has announced MonTitan, a high-performance PCIe Gen5 SSD solution platform purpose-built for demanding datacenter and enterprise applications. The Silicon Motion MonTitan platform features a new ASIC and FW architecture optimized for performance and quality of service (QoS).
KIOXIA has announced that it is now shipping the CM7 Series enterprise NVMe SSDs to select customers. Featuring the new PCIe Gen5 technology and NVMe 2.0, the new enterprise and data center SSD line is available in both EDSFF E3.S and 2.5-inch form factors. The KIOIXA CM7 Series is designed specifically for 24×7 enterprise and
Samsung has announced that they have developed a second generation of their SmartSSD. Originally announced by Samsung and Xilinx back in November 2020, the SmartSSD was the industry’s first adaptable computational storage platform and combined the performance, customization, and scalability required by data-intensive applications.
Micron Technology has announced they are shipping the new Micron 5400, the world’s first 176-layer NAND SATA SSDs for data centers, available in both 2.5-inch and M.2 form factors. The Micron 5400 allows data center operators to install new servers (or upgrade existing ones) while continuing to use the SATA interface and provides a viable
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