Seagate claims its 60TB SAS (Serial Attached SCSI) SSD is the largest ever demonstrated.
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Release date for the 60TB SAS SSD has been slated sometime in 2017.
Revealing that the 60TB SSD is based on a scalable “flexible architecture”, Seagate said that the drive will fit into the 3.5-inch storage slot of a standard enterprise hard disk drive.
The 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD and the 60TB SAS SSD are the most recent additions to Seagate’s data center product lineup, and are engineered to enable enterprise IT pros to obtain more value from the ever-growing amount of data they must manage, even under the most demanding usage scenarios. The pace of innovation in both capacity and performance could be signs of a maturing market, and could set up the potential for more widespread adoption of SSDs in the enterprise data center.
While packing 60TB into a single SSD might sound like overkill-plenty of cheaper servers run just fine on much cheaper conventional drives-Seagate is planning for a future when artificial intelligence and cloud storage will demand that data centers to be capable of quickly processing huge amounts of throughput.
Seagate has announced the largest SSD in the world. Apparently that 60TB is enough to store 12,000 DVD movies, but given the clients Seagate is trying to sell this to I can’t imagine that would be the drive’s primary use. That’s four times the size of Samsung’s monster 15TB SSD which became available to buy recently. In order to achieve such a feat, Seagate was able to utilize the same controller used in the Seagate 1200.2 SSD, but also included a staggering 1,280 NAND flash dies linked via bridge chips. Also, this technology readily integrates into all-flash system arrays.
The news has ignited excitement among many Seagate loyalists across the globe. Seagate made the announcement at the Flash Memory Summit industry conference in Santa Clara yesterday.
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Seagate says the 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe SSD will be available through channel partners by the end of the year.
