Seagate has introduced a new 60 TB SSD

The arrival of new items is planned for 2017.

"Giant" is made in the classic HDD form factor 3.5 inches

For the past five years, SSDs have been persistently winning a place in the sun. But with all the advantages of using a solid-state electronic drive, the high cost and small disk volumes, as well as other "children's" diseases, the technology forced us to look for compromises between using SSD and HDD.

The novelty was presented on the Flash Memory Summit . In addition to the 60 TB drive, Seagate also showed a more modest product - 8 TB SSD Nytro NVMe XP7200.

Now SSDs are used mainly as disks for operating systems and software that require high speed file access, while HDDs still serve as massive file storage. But the SSD had a huge handicap, first of all, in size - the main user models are available either in the 2.5-inch form factor, or as boards for connecting through the PCI Express port using the NVMe protocol (as well as the new Seagate version on 8 TB). HDD, on the other hand, “rested” for a long time in the size of a 3.5 inch disk and engineers had to go for various tricks to increase the amount of memory available for use. So, the same Seagate recently presented 10 TB HDD for home use, which uses the technology of "tiled" recording.
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New SSD-products of the company are focused primarily on the corporate segment. The manufacturer hopes that their development will help meet the rapidly growing demand for data storage services, cloud servers and SSD-based machines. The company's management sees the 60 TB drive as an alternative to the existing HDD, which is used to store large amounts of data. NVMe SSD on 8 TB is considered as a product for use in highly loaded scientific and / or meteorological systems that perform complex calculations.

On the technical characteristics of the disc company is still not covered. From the interface model, experts concluded that the new 60TB will have a random read speed of 150,000 IOPS, and I don’t even want to think about the random write speed, but it’s clear that in the current disc type it will be very, very small. The disk is equipped with a more modern Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface instead of the “standard” SATA.

In addition, the novelty has not even hit the shelves, and the company's management says that in the future the world can also see 100 TB of solid-state storage.

The second disc, the Nytro NVMe XP7200, is much more curious and more is known about it. Seagate's 8TB SSD is capable of 940,000 random reads per second and 160,000 write operations, and the sequential read / write speed reaches 10 GB / s and 3.6 GB / s, respectively. But there is also a fly in the story: for its work, the new drive will occupy a full-fledged PCI Express x16 slot, instead of the usual placement in PCIe x1.


Nytro NVMe XP7200 Circuit

The new SSD is equipped with a passive cooling radiator. In general, the appearance of the new product is more like a video card with passive cooling from the beginning of zero, than a high-tech modern product in the field of recording and storing information.

The exact price of the drives is still unknown. Seagate claims that the Nytro will be available later this year, and a 60 TB SSD will only be available in 2017.