From InfoWorld: Seagate today announced what it's calling the world's fastest enterprise-class, solid-state drive (SSD), one that can transfer data at rates up to 10 gigabytes per second (GBps), some 6GBps faster than its previously fastest SSD.
While there were no specifics with regard to the SSD's read/write rates, capacities or pricing, the company did say the new drive meets the Open Compute Project (OCP) specifications. The OCP was launched in 2011 to allow the sharing of data center designs among IT vendors -- including Facebook, Intel, Apple, and Microsoft -- as well as financial services companies such as Bank of America and Fidelity.
"Hypothetically a company like Netflix or YouTube or Hulu wants to maximize the speed at which they can deliver content, since it means they can serve more people at the same time," a Seagate spokesperson wrote in an email to Computerworld.. "Before, within a single card slot they could only get up to 6 GBps data throughput, but now in that same slot they can deliver 10 GBps. That comes to about two-thirds, or 66 percent increase in performance in the same slot, meaning they can theoretically deliver about 66 percent more streaming data per second."
Seagate said it plans to display the new SSD today at the OCP Summit in San Jose.
Seagate's new SSD is based on the non-volatile memory express (NVMe) interface, which was developed by a cooperative of more than 80 companies and released in March 2011. The NVMe specification defined an optimized register interface, command set and feature set for SSDs using the PCIe interface -- a high-speed serial computer expansion bus standard used in both enterprise and client systems.
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