Samsung has announced to have started shipping the world’s largest SSD PM1633a. Targeted at businesses for enterprise storage systems, it can store a 15.36TB data on a single drive.
The 2.5-inch SSD combines 512 256Gb VNAND chips in 16 layers to for a single package. The PM1633a boasts a sequential read and write speeds of up to 1200MB/s or IOPS of up to 200,000 for read and 32,000 for write.
Samsung says the SSD supports 1 DWPD, which is an acroynm for drive writes per day and this means the whole drive can be written every day without failure.
There’s no word on the price of the SSD but it’s obvious that it won’t come cheap.
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