Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. recently confirmed the development of PCIe 5.0 SSD for enterprise servers as a result of a collaboration with chipset and server manufacturers.
"The introduction of our PCIe 5.0 SSD, along with PCIe 6.0-based product developments that are underway, will further solidify our technological leadership in the enterprise server market,” Yong Ho Song, executive vice president and head of the Memory Controller Development Team at Samsung Electronics, said in a company release.
The PCIe 5.0 SSD, a high-speed expansion card, is designed with faster data speeds and 30% power efficiency. The SSD offers an upgraded bandwidth of 32 gigatransfers per second, a press release said.
"The performance potential of Gen5 is truly impressive. In the near future, we strongly believe that PCIe Gen5 systems with high-speed NVMe SSDs will have the ability to transform applications such as AI/ML and high-performance databases," Jim Pappas, director of Technology Initiatives, Intel Corporation, said.
Similarly, the PM1743 is reported to offer higher reading and writing speeds to fulfill the performance needs of data centers. Sequential read speed will reach up to 13,000 megabytes per second (MB/s) while a random read speed can achieve 2,500K input/output operations per second, resulting in speeds 1.9x and 1.7x faster, according to a company release.
Showing a significant increase, the sequential write speed of 6,600 MB/s and the random write speed of 250K IOPS will deliver 1.7x and 1.9x faster speeds, respectively.
"For over a decade, Samsung has been delivering SATA, SAS and PCIe-based SSDs that have been recognized for outstanding performance and reliability by leading enterprise server customers including corporations, governments and financial institutions," Ho Song said.
The company plans to distribute samples of the PM1743 to chipset and server manufacturers around the world.