During the Flash Memory Summit last week, Seagate has shown their latest enterprise SSDs. Seagate is also introducing a new branding strategy to unify their enterprise SSD product lines under one numbering scheme. During the show, the company presented the largest NVMe SSD ever demonstrated with 64TB of capacity. On top of that the drive can achieve insane speeds. Furthermore the company has also shown a bunch of other products.

The new NVMe SSDs will be branded Nytro 5000 series. The old Nytro XM1440 is being replaced by the Nytro 5000 series that brings a few hardware changes as well. The Nytro 5000 is still based on the M.2 22110 form factor with power loss protection and a maximum power draw of 8.25W. Compared to the Nytro XM1440, the Nytro 5000 series doubles random write performance.

The 1200.2 family of SAS SSDs is being replaced by the Nytro 3000 series. Due to the dual-port SAS support and the higher power limits enabled, the Nytro 3000 can offer similar performance to the Nytro 5000 as well as higher capacities.

In addition the company has unveiled a new NVMe SSD. Seagate has built an ultra-high capacity 64TB SSD using 3D TLC NAND and a PCIe 3.0 x16 interface. Inside the drive there are eight M.2 SSDs each with a PCIe 3.0 x4 link to the drive's built-in PCIe switch. Together the M.2 SSDs on this drive deliver sequential read speeds of 13GB/s at QD8 and random reads of 2M IOPS at QD64.

The Nytro 3000 series will be enter mass production in Q4 2017 while the 5000 series should become available soon. At the moment there aren't any details on the upcoming 64TB NVMe model.



Source: Seagate