Seagate has unveiled two new SSDs at the Flash Memory Summit that could break some records in the enterprise SSD market, including the Nytro XP7200, a 10GB/s PCIe x16 SSD as well as a 60TB SAS SSD based on Micron's 3D TLC NAND.

The 10GB/s PCIe x16 SSD has already been demonstrated earlier in March but has now get a name and will be called the Nytro XP7200. Scheduled for mass production in Q4 2016, the Nytro XP7200 is based on four Nytro XM1440 M.2 SSDs packed under a single heatsink on a full-height card with PCIe x16 interface.

Since it does not include a PCIe switch chip, this means that the Nytro XP7200 can only be used in a PCIe x16 slot that support operation as four separate x4 links, meaning that if you use it in a x8 slot, it will only give access to two out of four M.2 SSDs. To be available in 3.8 and 7.7 TB capacities, the XP7200 also uses software based RAID 0 since it is based on four independent NVMe SSDs.

The Nytro XP7200 should offer sequential read and write performance of up to 10GB/s and 3.6GB/s with random read and write performance of 940K and 160K IOPS.

Since the Nytro XP7200 is now ready to go into mass production in Q4 2016, Seagate also brought a new demo for the Flash Memory Summit, which is a 3.5-inch 60TB SAS SSD. Still not having an official name, the new 60TB Seagate SSD uses Micron's 3D TLC NAND and uses ONFi bridge chips to connect all those TLC dies allowing Seagate to use more dies than it would be possible with standard controllers. It uses dual-port 12Gbps SAS interface and offers sequential performance of 1500MB/s for read and 1000MB/s for write.

As it is only a demo, the Seagate 60TB SAS SSD is not expected in retail before next year, but at least we have the 10Gbps SSD to look forward to later this year.



Source: Anandtech.com.