Seagate Nytro 5060 PCIe Gen5 Enterprise SSD Teased at FMS

The Seagate Nytro 5060 PCIe Gen5 SSD was revealed quietly at the Flash Memory Summit & Exhibition 2023. This cutting-edge enterprise drive is designed to elevate performance standards in data center applications, offering enhanced speed, scalability, and endurance.

The Seagate Nytro 5060 PCIe Gen5 SSD was revealed quietly at the Flash Memory Summit & Exhibition 2023. This cutting-edge enterprise drive is designed to elevate performance standards in data center applications, offering enhanced speed, scalability, and endurance.

The Nytro 5060 SSD announcement certainly generates a bit of intrigue. It will be powered by a Phison X Series Gen5 controller, a technology yet to be featured in any currently available SSDs. This marks a notable departure from Seagate’s typical product launch strategy, which usually involves only discussing products when they are ready to ship. The decision to showcase the Nytro 5060 SSD ahead of its official release emphasizes the confidence Seagate places in the capabilities of this SSD.

The Seagate Nytro 5060 SSD stands out with its versatile form factors and capacities, available in E3.S and 2.5 (U.2), making it adaptable to various enterprise and data center applications. It uses the PCIe Gen5 NVMe interface that supports both dual-port and single-port configurations, providing redundancy and flexibility to meet data center demands.

Its PCIe Gen5 NVMe interface translates to impressive performance with sequential read speeds of up to 13,000MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 10,000MB/s. We saw a little more out of the drive during the FMS demo. We’ve embedded a brief video from the show floor.

The Nytro 5060s also come in a broad range of storage capacities (from 1.6TB to 30TB) and endurance levels with 1 Drive Write Per Day (DWPD) and 3 DWPD SSD models. This allows enterprises to select the appropriate SSD variant based on workload requirements to achieve a balance between performance, longevity, and cost-effectiveness.

Packaging a few dozen 30TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs inside a compatible data center server will bring substantial benefits. Firstly, the high storage capacity ensures ample room for vast datasets, accommodating the growing demands of modern applications and data-intensive workloads. Coupling this with the Gen5 interface’s performance can significantly reduce latency and facilitate real-time processing, which is crucial for analytics, AI, and other performance-sensitive tasks. Organizations will certainly be able to build a powerful foundation for data center/enterprise operations with these next-gen Seagate SSDs.

The official launch and general availability of the Nytro 5060 are yet to be determined, but showing it off at FMS must mean an announcement is coming soon.

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