It appears that SSD market is expanding even more and there is quite a demand for high-capacity SSDs since SanDisk plans to introduce 6TB and 8TB versions next year.

While it has already introduced its Optimus Max 4TB SSD aimed to be used in datacenters back in April last year, it appears that there is a market for even higher-capacity SSDs and while 4TB is definitely not as popular, SanDisk already plans 6TB and 8TB for next year.

The earlier introduced SanDisk Optimus Max 4TB SSD was designed for datacenters and meant to replace 10K and 15K RPM HDDs and while it does not offer high-performance with sequential read and write speed of up to 400MB/s and random performance of up to 75K and 15K IOPS for read and write, it is still better than most HDDs on the market.




Currently, SanDisk is only shipping the Optimus Max 4TB to its OEM customers but it should be achieving high-volume later this year.

The big problem behind high-capacity SSDs is that it takes a lot of time for customers to qualify such SSDs but constant drop in price for SSDs makes them quite interesting and upcoming 15nm NAND flash-based 12Gbps SAS SSDs will certainly push that market in the right direction.

While SanDisk earlier suggested that we might see 6TB and 8TB in 2015, it appears that the development pushed it a bit further as the company is waiting for 15nm NAND memory as well as 3D vertically-stacked BiCS NAND in order to get cost-efficient, higher density and higher-performance SSDs.

While these will only be available for enterprise-market in the beginning, it should not take long for these to be available for standard consumer market as well.



Source: KitGuru.net.