Mumbai: SanDisk announced the world’s first high-capacity solid state drive this week. Alongside the high-capacity drive, SanDisk also unveiled three new high-speed 1.6 TB SSDs which claims speeds of almost 12Gbps.
Computer World reported that in all SanDisk announced four new data center-class SSDs. As the drives are enterprise-class, which are typically sold through third parties, SanDisk did not announce pricing with the new drives.
Along with the new drives unveiled, SanDisk also hopes to produce 6TB and 8TB SSDs in 2.5-inch packages by next year. "We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs," Manuel Martull, SanDisk's product & solutions marketing director, stated in an email reply to Computerworld.
SanDisk's new 4TB Optimus MAX SAS SSD is the highest capacity 2.5-in. SSD drive to date. The SSDs come with a 6Gbps SAS interface. The drive is aimed at read-intensive applications, such as data warehousing, media streaming and web servers. The typical workload envisioned for the 4TB drive is 90% read and 10% write, SanDisk stated.
The Optimus MAX SAS SSD is capable of up to 400 MBps sequential reads and writes and up to 75,000 random I/Os per second (IOPS) for both reads and writes, the company said.
"The Optimus MAX SSD achieves a capacity point that far outpaces today's highest-capacity 2.5-in. 10,000 and 15,000 rpm SAS hard-disk drives, making it the first true replacement for legacy mission-critical data center SAS HDDs," SanDisk stated in its announcement. All come with a five-year warranty and have a 2.5 million-hour mean time between failure ratings from SanDisk.
