The arrival of SSDs based on NAND memory has been a revolution in computing. But everything has an expiration date, as the years have gone by we have become accustomed to the speed of the SSD and are already looking for faster options and more durable, that’s where the Samsung SZ985 and its Z-NAND memory comes into play.
Samsung SZ985, this will be the SSD of the future
Z-NAND is a new memory technology from Samsung; it is an evolution of the current NAND to be able to compete with Intel’s Optane. This new standard manages to improve speed and reduce latencies while also improving durability. That is why the Z-NAND is destined to replace the NAND in the future since everything is an advantage, at least on paper.
Samsung SZ985 is a new SSD disk that is based on Z-NAND memory and reaches a capacity of 800 GB. That is an excellent solution for large data centers and workstations that need large storage capacity, with high speed and reasonable prices. This new memory has been designed to offer ten times the reading performance of a V-NAND memory cell, so the improvement is enormous, the response time has also been significantly improved by reducing latency.
This Samsung SZ985 800 GB includes a 1.5 GB DDR4 cache. And that can offer a random reading performance of 750,000 IOPS along with the writing of 170,000 IOPS. And offers latency of only 16 microseconds. The durability is also beyond doubt, is capable of holding 42 Petabytes of written data. So, that means filling the disk 30 times per day for five years.
There will also be a 240 GB capacity version, both using a PCI Express card format with a PCIe 3.0 x4 interface. The prices have not been announced.
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