Samsung Starts Manufacturing of High-Performance SSDs

From X-bit Labs: Samsung Electronics, the world’s largest supplier of NAND flash memory, on Monday announced that it is now supplying its solid state drive (SSD), the SM843T, for use in high-performance servers and storage in next-generation data centers, including Big Data systems.

“Samsung Green SSD products are widely acknowledged for their superior performance and quality design having contributed to data center system improvements and operational cost savings. In response to customer demand, we are accelerating the growth of the flash storage market with new SSD offerings this year like the SM843T, while reinforcing our competitive edge in next-generation SSD products and solutions,” said Young-Hyun Jun, executive vice president, memory sales and marketing at Samsung Electronics.

The SM843T strengthens Samsung’s Serial ATA interface enterprise SSD product lineup. Offering up to 960GB of storage space for faster and more efficient Big Data systems and cloud computing environments, the SM843T offers the industry’s most advanced performance level for Serial ATA-6Gb/s SSDs.

The new Samsung SM843T line-up boasts high performance and endurance levels, respectively, reaching up to 98 000 (sustained) random read IOPS (input/output operations per second) and 20 000 sequential TBW (terabytes written) with the 960GB model, while providing an ideal environment for Big Data systems.

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