Samsung NVMe SSD at 3.2TB Based on 3D Vertical NAND For Enterprise Servers

Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has started mass producing 3.2TB NVMe PCIe SSDs based on its 3D V-NAND (Vertical NAND) flash memory technology, for use in high-end enterprise server systems.

The new NVMe PCIe SSD, SM1715, utilizes Samsung’s proprietary 3D V-NAND in an half-height, half-length card-type form factor, to offer 3.2TB of storage capacity – doubling Samsung’s previous highest NVMe SSD density of 1.6TB.

“Beginning with mass production of this new V-NAND-based NVMe SSD, which delivers the highest level of performance and density available today, we expect to greatly expand the high-density SSD market,” said Jeeho Baek, VP, memory marketing, Samsung. “Samsung plans to actively introduce V-NAND-based SSDs with even higher performance, density and reliability in the future, to keep its global customers ahead of their competition.”

The SM1715 is an upgraded version of the XS1715 in terms of drive performance and reliability. That 2.5-inch XS1715 was bestowed a 2014 Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award earlier this year for being one of the Most Innovative Flash Memory technologies.

The newly introduced 3.2TB NVMe SSD provides a sequential read speed of 3,000MB/s and writes sequentially at up to 2,200MB/s. It also randomly reads at up to 750,000 IO/s and writes randomly at up to 130,000 IO/s.

In addition, the 3.2TB SM1715 features reliability with 10 drive writes per day for five years. This provides a level of reliability that enterprise server manufacturers have been requesting for their high-end storage solutions.

The SM1715 comes in 1.6TB and 3.2TB versions, adding more NVMe options to a 2.5-inch NVMe XS1715 lineup that includes 800GB and 1.6TB versions.

Since 2013, Samsung has introduced a range of 3D V-NAND-based SATA SSDs for PCs and data centers. Now, it is rolling out the SM1715 to accelerate the transition to the NVMe interface in the server sector, while expanding its 3D V-NAND SSD business to offer drives with more than 3TB of storage.