Dell World 2015, in Austin Texas, just came to a close. Samsung was at the event showing off its 3D NAND infused memory products, reports Tom's Hardware. Perhaps most impressively, the South Korean tech giant was demonstrating its enterprise SSDs which included a new PCIe SSD and a 15.63 TB SSD.
Samsung previously announced the PM1725 at the Flash Memory Summit, back in August. At that time we were told about the firm's 3rd gen 3D V-NAND manufacturing and that the PM1725 6.4TB NVMe PCIe SSD would breach the one million IOPs performance milestone. At Dell World, Austin, Samsung was demonstrating that performance, for the first time, in public.
At Samsung's computer tech display area it demonstrated a PM1725 reading data at 6.2GBps with a sequential workload (128K, QD32). Tom's Hardware points out that this is faster than a DDR3 DRAM-based flash drive it has previously tested. The journalists managed to get their hands on the Samsung system and did further tests recording over a million IOPs with a 4K random read (see image above) and over 340,000 IOPS with a 4K random write workload. Testing the Samsung PM1725 prototype with 128K sequential writes charted a performance of 1,955MB/s.
Please remember this PCIe 3.0 x8 slot drive is aimed at enterprise and businesses and will be pretty expensive when it becomes available. Samsung is also making a 2.5-inch form factor version of the PM1725, as you can see from the picture above. As usual we look forward to this cutting edge technology dripping down to enthusiast and consumer levels.
