Today Samsung is launching a new lineup of solid state drives for small and medium businesses, which go by the names PM863 and SM863. Compared to the predecessors, performance, capacities and efficiency have been improved.

Both drives are based on Samsung's latest V-NAND. In the case of the PM863 3-bit MLC V-NAND is in place, whereas the SM863 is based on 2-bit MLC V-NAND. According to Samsung the PM863 is best used for mixed workloads like for example content delivery networks, streaming or web servers. The SM863 is recommended to be deployed in write-intensive environments, which means that online transaction processing (OLTP) servers would benefit from these drives.

As we already mentioned also capacities have been improved. The PM863 is available with 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB, 1.9TB and 3.8TB. From the 240GB drive upwards in capacity there is 540 MB/s read/write perforamance and random read performance is at 99'000 IOPS. In the case of the SM863 can be ordered with 120GB, 240GB, 480GB, 960GB and 1.9TB capacity. Apart from that sequential read speed is up to 520 MB/s and sequential write is up to 485 MB/s.

The drives will be available from the beginning of August 2015.




Source: PR