Samsung Electronics announced Wednesday that it is now shipping the industry’s highest-capacity solid-state drive (SSD), the 15.36TB PM1633a.
Samsung revealed it was working on the drive last August, saying it would use the same form factor as for a laptop computer: 2.5-in.
The 2.5-in SSD is based on a 12Gbps Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface for use in enterprise storage systems. The PM1633a has blazing fast performance, with random read and write speeds of up to 200,000 and 32,000 I/Os per second (IOPS), respectively. It delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 1200MBps, the company said. A typical SATA SSD can peak at about 550MBps.
