Seagate Demonstrates Fastest-Ever SSD Flash Drive

[Nepturion]

This is some awesome news!  

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Seagate’s new NVMe PCI-E 16x SSD is capable of hitting 6.7GB/s of sustained throughput!
CUPERTINO, Calif.– Seagate Technology plc today unveiled a production-ready unit of the fastest single solid-state drive (SSD) demonstrated to date, with throughput performance of 10 gigabytes per second (GB/s).

The early unit meets Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications, making it ideal for hyperscale data centers looking to adopt the fastest flash technology with the latest and most sustainable standards.

The 10GB/s unit, which is expected to be released this summer, is more than 4GB/s faster than the previous fastest-industry SSD on the market.

It also meets the OCP storage specifications being driven by Facebook, which will help reduce the power and cost burdens traditionally associated with operating at this level of performance.

 

They will be on display at the upcoming Open Compute Project Summit 2016 in San Jose, Calif. March 9-10 at Seagate’s booth.

 

Source: Legit Reviews

[TheRandomness]

Holy craps that's awesome. Almost justifies the ridiculous price tag (c'mon, it'll be at least $2000)

[Digital_]

Another thing I wish I could afford

[Tech N Gamer]

That's fucking fast. I wish I could afford this.

[xentropa]

16x PCI-e

 

Awesome.  Goodbye video card.

[patrickjp93]

25 minutes ago, xentropa said:

16x PCI-e

 

Awesome.  Goodbye video card.

8x actually, which could in fact max out around 7.8GB/s. Despite the article quote, it's obviously only 8x.

[Notional]

16 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

8x actually, which could in fact max out around 7.8GB/s. Despite the article quote, it's obviously only 8x.

I think that is a generic render, not the actual card.

[Stefan1024]

There is an 8x version as well as a bigger and faster 16x one.

very nice, but I'm wondering what QD you have to have to reach this speed. Also all but most powerful CPUs can't request that much data let alone do some reasonable prosessing with it.

 

[SurvivorNVL]

So, does it survive more than six months?  

[FPSwithaWacomTablet]

7 minutes ago, SurvivorNVL said:

So, does it survive more than six months?  

I'm assuming that the NAND itself wouldn't last, considering it would burn through its write-cycles in no time.

[patrickjp93]

1 hour ago, Stefan1024 said:

There is an 8x version as well as a bigger and faster 16x one.

very nice, but I'm wondering what QD you have to have to reach this speed. Also all but most powerful CPUs can't request that much data let alone do some reasonable prosessing with it.

 

NVMe is asynchronous just like SAS. If you have enough cores, you can request enough data.

[NateGSR117]

Holy cow that amazing 

[Stefan1024]

3 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

NVMe is asynchronous just like SAS. If you have enough cores, you can request enough data.

Sure, but you have to have a lot of cores. And yes you can probably pull 10 GBytes/s with an i7-5690X, but you have to process the data unless you are a file server with with two 40 GBit/s ports at least. And that's exactly what the drive is made for: server and data centers.

[Watermelon Guy]

2 hours ago, TheRandomness said:

Holy craps that's awesome. Almost justifies the ridiculous price tag (c'mon, it'll be at least $2000)

You cant really call it ridiculous, its an expected price point.

[Doobeedoo]

That's just awesome.

Waiting until current SSD prices drop half so I can get 1TB SSD for great price. Can't wait  Though there may be 10TB HDD by then for solid price to

[BobbyG2]

The biggest surprise is that it's Seagate.  Weren't they the ones that said HDDS were here to stay for a very long time? 

[Beskamir]

I want one! Also I'm amazed that Seagate is the company that did this.

[Guest]

2 hours ago, BobbyG2 said:

The biggest surprise is that it's Seagate.  Weren't they the ones that said HDDS were here to stay for a very long time? 

Even they know that high speed SAS drives are dead to the enterprise market with the $/GB of SSD's. They'll want to cash in and not leave it to Toshbia/Sandisk/Samsung/Intel.

[Bouzoo]

That is quite impressive. I'm curious as to how much it will throttle, which I have a feeling it will, at least with stock heatsink. 

[Dabombinable]

That SSD is faster than the SDRAM in my old desktop.....

 

 

[Murasaki]

Impressive or not im staying away from Seagate branded storage devices for life.

[Coaxialgamer]

On 8/3/2016 at 4:13 PM, TheRandomness said:

Holy craps that's awesome. Almost justifies the ridiculous price tag (c'mon, it'll be at least $2000)

HAVE you seen the prices of entreprise SSD's ?

 

Make that 10K at least.

[Mystic Mistro]

who knew that one day your storage could actually take so much bandwidth that your GPU might be hampered this is some new age performance hahaha 

[IAcKI]

20 hours ago, BobbyG2 said:

The biggest surprise is that it's Seagate.  Weren't they the ones that said HDDS were here to stay for a very long time? 

They will still be here for a long time. As of now I don't really want to store All of my files on a £300 SSD and in alot of cases HDD's are still needed. Be atleast 5-10 years until HDD's are used very little and the kids won't grasp the concept of any type of disk for data storage. 

[aneil1998]

@LinusTech Can this please be a holy shit episode.