Samsung has launched a wafer-thin 8TB NVMe solid state drive in the Next Generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF), which can be combined to offer the world’s highest storage density of 576TB in 2U servers. A new, high-performance controller supporting the NVMe 1.3 protocol and PCIe 4.0 interface allows for sequential read speeds of 3,100MB/s and write speeds of 2,000MB/s.



The new SSD is built with 16 of Samsung’s 512-gigabyte (GB) NAND packages, each stacked in 16 layers of 256 gigabit (Gb) 3-bit V-NAND chips, achieving an 8TB density in an ultra-small footprint of 11cm x 3.05cm. This is twice the capacity offered by the M.2 NVMe SSD (11cm x 2.2cm) commonly used in hyper-scale server designs and ultra-slim laptops.

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