Next-Generation Enterprise Storage: Samsung Develops Industry’s First 2.5-Inch NVMe SSD.

Professional trend obliges, Samsung is consolidating its portfolio, to help companies face the storage challenges.

In this dynamic, today Samsung has announced that it has developed the industry’s first 2.5-inch (SFF-8639) NVM Express
(NVMe) PCIe solid state drive (SSD), with the goal to open up the high-end enterprise storage market.

Connectikpeople has discovered that, the newly developed high-speed 1.6TB NVMe SSD provides a sequential read speed at 3,000MB/s, which allows it to process 500GB (gigabytes) of data (equivalent to 100 Full HD movies 5GB in length) in less than 3 minutes.

This means, compared to other products with similar specifications, this new SSD is 14 times faster than a high-end enterprise HDD for server use, and six times faster than Samsung’s former high-end enterprise SSD storage.

Henceforth, the XS1715’s random read performance reaches up to 740,000 IOPS (Input Output Operations Per Second), which is more than 10 times as fast as existing high-end SSD storage options. And the new NVMe SSD XS1715 comes in 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB (terabytes) versions.

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