Samsung Electronics, the world leader in advanced memory technology, today announced the industry’s largest capacity NVMe (SSD) solid state drive based on the incredibly small next-generation small form factor (NGSFF): 8 Terabyte (TB) NF1 SSD. The new 8TB NVMe NF1 SSD NVMe has been optimized for data-intensive analysis and virtualization applications in data centers and servers.
NF1 SSD 8TB Maximum Efficiency
“By introducing the first SSD NF1 NVMe, Samsung is taking data center investment efficiency to new heights,” said Sewon Chun, senior vice president of marketing for Samsung Electronics. “We will continue to lead the trend toward high-density data centers and enterprise systems by delivering storage solutions with unmatched levels of performance and density.
The new SSD is built with 16 Samsung 512 gigabyte (GB) NAND memory packs, each stacked in 16 layers of 256 Gigabit (Gb) 3-bit V-NAND chips. So, achieving a density of 8TB at a size of 11 cm x 3.05 cm. This is twice the capacity offered by the M.2 NVMe SSD (11 cm x 2.2 cm) commonly used in ultra-thin laptop and server designs. The NF1 SSD is expected to quickly and easily replace conventional 2.5-inch NVMe SSDs by enabling up to three times the system density on existing server infrastructure, enabling unprecedented 576TB of storage space on the latest 2U rack servers.
The NF1 SSD features a new high-performance driver that supports NVMe 1.3 protocol and PCIe 4.0 interface, delivering sequential read rates of 3,100 megabytes per second (MB/s) and write rates of 2,000 MB/s.
These speeds are more than five times and three times faster than those of a typical SATA SSD, respectively. Random speeds reach 500,000 IOPS for read operations and 50,000 IOPS for write operations.
Using the new NF1 storage solution, an enterprise server system can perform over one million IOPS in a 2U rack space, significantly improving the return on investment for next-generation, large-scale data centers. The SSD also includes a 12GB LPDDR4 DRAM for faster, more energy-efficient data processing.
To ensure long-term data reliability, the NF1 NVMe SSD has been designed with a resiliency level of 1.3 write units per day (DWPD). That guarantees writing 8TB of data 1.3 times per day during its 3-year warranty period.
Samsung plans to accompany its 256GB, 3-bit V-NAND-based SSD with a 512Gb version in the second half of this year to accommodate even faster processing for big data applications while accelerating growth in the next generation of enterprise and market data centers.