Samsung has unveiled its newest enterprise-class 2.5-inch 32TB SSD at the Flash Memory Summit 2016 in Santa Clara, California, that will be using 64-layer 3D V-NAND and provide higher performance compared to Samsung currently available PM1663a enterprise SSD.


Based on a standard 12mm-thick 2.5-inch form-factor, the new 32TB SSD from Samsung more than doubles the capacity of its currently available PM1663a SSD.

According to Ryan Smith, Samsung's Senior SSD and Storage Product Manager, the new 32TB SSD prototype will both deliver higher performance and be more reliable than the 15.36TB PM1663a SSD, all thanks to the 4th generation 64-layer 3D V-NAND.

As this is an enterprise-class SSD, it will be based on SAS 12Gbps interface but it is only a matter of time before we see the same NAND flash memory in consumer-class SSDs.

During the Flash Memory Summit 2016, Samsung also unveiled the Z-SSD technology, a NAND-based devices that are designed to be used as a cache or temporary storage devices in data centers, placing them somewhere between an SSD and DRAM. These devices will offer performance similar to DRAM but with SSD-like usage.

During its FMS 2016 keynote, Samsung also talked about the future, suggesting that we will see 100TB SSDs by 2020. The company also noted that we will soon see a new SSD form-factor which will be a larger versions of the M.2, providing more room for storage, accelerator chips and power control circuits.

Hopefully, we will see some consumer-based SDDs from Samsung soon, but according to what could be seen from FMS 2016, companies are hard at work looking for a way to increase the SSD capacity.



Source: PCWorld.com.