Optimus Max | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net KitGuru.net - Tech News | Hardware News | Hardware Reviews | IOS | Mobile | Gaming | Graphics Cards Sat, 25 Jul 2015 21:53:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.kitguru.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/cropped-KITGURU-Light-Background-SQUARE2-32x32.png Optimus Max | KitGuru https://www.kitguru.net 32 32 SanDisk plans to release 6TB and 8TB SSDs in 2016 https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-is-developing-6tb-8tb-ssds-for-datacentres-plans-to-introduce-them-in-2016/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-is-developing-6tb-8tb-ssds-for-datacentres-plans-to-introduce-them-in-2016/#comments Sat, 25 Jul 2015 16:27:21 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=260760 SanDisk introduced the world’s first datacentre-class 4TB solid-state drives back in April, 2014. While the SSDs are available, SanDisk ships them to only one major customer today because clients, who require such high-capacity SSDs and can afford them need to qualify drives before deployment. But while 4TB SSDs are yet to become relatively popular, the …

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SanDisk introduced the world’s first datacentre-class 4TB solid-state drives back in April, 2014. While the SSDs are available, SanDisk ships them to only one major customer today because clients, who require such high-capacity SSDs and can afford them need to qualify drives before deployment. But while 4TB SSDs are yet to become relatively popular, the company is already developing 6TB and 8TB solutions due next year.

The SanDisk Optimus Max 4TB solid-state drive for hyperscale datacentres is designed to replace 10K and 15K rpm hard disk drives and provide unique combination of high-density storage, SSD-class performance and support for SAS infrastructure. The drive was not developed with high performance in mind: it features sequential read/write performance of up to 400MB/s and can perform 75K or 15K random read and write input/output operations per second (IOPS).

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At present SanDisk ships its Optimus Max 4TB solid-state drive to one of its OEM customers, whereas others are still qualifying the product. It is likely that the company will start to ship such drives in relatively high volume later this year.

“The Optimus Max SSD has become an important high capacity solution for one of our OEM customer’s all flash array offerings,” said Sanjay Mehrotra, chief executive officer and president of SanDisk, during the company’s earnings conference call with investors and financial analysts. “Several other OEM and hyperscale customers are now qualifying our 4TB enterprise SAS SSD because they see the value of reducing their total cost of acquisition and ownership by utilizing this highest capacity solution.”

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Last year SanDisk implied in an interview that it might introduce solid-state drives with 6TB and 8TB capacity already in 2015, but it the company now intends to release them only in 2016. The slight delay will hardly significantly affect SanDisk’s financial performance because it takes a long time for its customers to qualify SSDs of such class.

6TB and 8TB solid-state drives are currently in development. The only thing presently known about them is that they will be based on Toshiba’s multi-level cell NAND flash memory made using 15nm fabrication technology.

“We are developing our next-generation 15nm NAND flash-based 12Gb/s SAS SSD with higher capacity and performance,” said Mr. Mehrotra. “We expect to introduce that solution to market in 2016 with revenue contribution starting in late 2016.”

While 6TB and 8TB SSDs will continue to use MLC NAND, future hyperscale SSDs from SanDisk will rely on three-dimensional (3D) vertically-stacked BiCS NAND, which is more cost-efficient to produce and which provides higher densities, performance and reliability. 3D NAND will help to drive down per-gigabyte costs of SSDs to levels comparable with enterprise-class HDDs, SanDisk and Toshiba believe.

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SanDisk expects total available market of enterprise-class solid-state drives to increase to $8 billion in 2018 from $4 billion in 2014.

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KitGuru Says: It is noteworthy that while SanDisk would like to replace high-performance enterprise-class hard disk drives with solid-state drives in the next several years, the company does not want to aggressively expand its NAND flash manufacturing capacities, unlike Samsung Electronics, who is adding capacities. Basically, SanDisk slowdowns decline of per-gigabyte costs of SSDs, which slowdowns transition of datacentres to solid-state storage.

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SanDisk to release 8TB SSD in 2015, 16TB SSD a year after https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-to-release-8tb-ssd-in-2015-16tb-ssd-a-year-after/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-to-release-8tb-ssd-in-2015-16tb-ssd-a-year-after/#comments Sat, 03 May 2014 15:23:06 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=190959 Many modern storage sub-systems – both client and server – use solid-state drives to store frequently accessed data and programs and hard disk drives to keep large amounts of data that require a lot of storage space, but is not used often. Basically, storage sub-systems enjoy the best of both worlds: performance of SSDs and …

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Many modern storage sub-systems – both client and server – use solid-state drives to store frequently accessed data and programs and hard disk drives to keep large amounts of data that require a lot of storage space, but is not used often. Basically, storage sub-systems enjoy the best of both worlds: performance of SSDs and cost-efficient capacities of HDDs. But SanDisk Corp. believes that in the coming years SSDs will leave HDDs behind both in terms of performance and capacity, at least in one market segment.

Late last month SanDisk unveiled the world’s first solid-state drives with 4TB capacity aimed at mission-critical storage applications. The Optimus Max SSD not only outperforms the latest-generation mission-critical hard drives with 10K and 15K rpm spindle speed, but also provides larger storage capacity and consumes less power. The 4TB enterprise-class solid-state drive costs a lot today, but SanDisk has clear intentions to offer even higher-capacity SSDs in the coming years as prices of NAND flash drop: 6TB and 8TB drives are projected to emerge already in 2015.

“We see reaching the 4TB mark as really just the beginning and expect to continue doubling the capacity every year or two, far outpacing the growth for traditional HDDs,” said Manuel Martull, product and solutions marketing director at SanDisk, in a conversation with Computerworld.

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The representative for SanDisk reportedly confirmed plans to release 6TB and 8TB Optimus Max SSDs in 2.5” form-factor next year. If the company and its NAND flash manufacturing partner Toshiba Corp. keep the same pace of optimising manufacturing costs of memory, then it is reasonable to expect 16TB mission-critical/enterprise SSDs from SanDisk in 2016.

Although solid-state drives for mission-critical applications will remain more expensive than comparable hard disk drives when it comes to per-gigabyte cost in 2015 – 2016 timeframe, if they provide larger capacities, higher performance and lower power consumption, many owners of datacentres should get very interested in them.

“High capacity and small footprint of the drives will offer users a path for transitioning from hard disk drives to SSDs because they will no longer be forced to decide between cost and performance, or give up important functionality,” said John Scaramuzzo, general manager of SanDisk's enterprise storage solutions group.

Even today one Optimus Max 4TB (up to 400MB/s sequential read/write, up to 75K/15K random read/write IOPS, 1-3 drive writes per day for five years) provides three to four times larger capacity compared to mission-critical 10K HDDs, two to four times higher sequential read and write performance and order-of-magnitude higher amount of random read/write input/output operations per second (IOPS). With 8TB and 16TB capacities, SSDs for mission critical applications will offer even stronger advantage.

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SanDisk expects that sometimes in 2017 and onward the per-GB price of mission-critical solid-state drives and hard disk drives will be comparable. At the same time, SSDs will offer higher performance, lower power consumption and other benefits.
A market rumour suggests that the current-gen 10K and 15K HDDs represent the last generation of mission-critical hard drives as we know them. Going forward there will be other storage devices for this market segment.

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KitGuru Says: It should be clearly noted that per-GB price-parity between mission-critical SSDs and HDDs does not mean that there will be a similar per-GB price-parity between high-capacity client or server hard drives and client or server solid-state drives. For many years down the road high-capacity HDDs will continue to be used to store large amounts of data both on client and server sides.

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SanDisk reveals 4TB SSDs with SAS interface for data-centers https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-reveals-4tb-ssds-with-sas-interface-for-enterprise-class-systems/ https://www.kitguru.net/components/ssd-drives/anton-shilov/sandisk-reveals-4tb-ssds-with-sas-interface-for-enterprise-class-systems/#comments Wed, 30 Apr 2014 15:09:36 +0000 http://www.kitguru.net/?p=190269 SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday announced a new solid-state drive designed for enterprises that could change the way storage systems are built today. The new Optimus Max SSD boasts 4TB capacity, high reliability as well as leading-edge performance, the qualities that are crucial for large data-centers. Nowadays data-centers use multi-tier storage systems that include large-capacity hard …

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SanDisk Corp. on Wednesday announced a new solid-state drive designed for enterprises that could change the way storage systems are built today. The new Optimus Max SSD boasts 4TB capacity, high reliability as well as leading-edge performance, the qualities that are crucial for large data-centers.

Nowadays data-centers use multi-tier storage systems that include large-capacity hard disk drives to keep data that is not needed often, high-performance hard disk drives with 10K or 15K rpm spindle speed for mission-critical data that requires both storage space and performance as well as solid-state drives for data that is accessed frequently. As the amounts of data grow in general, larger SSDs are needed to store “hot” data and higher performance is required for solutions that store “mission critical” and sometimes even “cold” data.

The Optimus Max SSD offers an alternative – delivering cost-effective, high-density storage with SSD-class performance, allowing enterprises to replace HDDs while leveraging their current SAS storage infrastructures. The Optimus Max provides more storage space than any mission-critical 10K or 15K HDD, while at the same time offering dramatically higher performance as well. Since the new SSD provides better performance and higher-capacity than HDDs, the Optimus Max will help SanDisk customers to lower the amount of racks, power supplies, HBAs and other components of data-centers. Quite naturally, total cost of data-centers’ ownership will also drop.

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SanDisk Optimus Max solid-state drive is not a performance champion: it features sequential read/write performance of up to 400MB/s and can perform 75K or 15K random read and write input/output operations per second (IOPS). It joins other drives in the Optimus family that provide capacities between 100GB and 2TB. The whole Optimus family is based on 19nm MLC NAND flash memory.

All SanDisk Optimus drives, including the Optimus Max SSD, feature a set of SanDisk technoloties that work in concert to provide a combination of powerful error correction and detection technology, full data path protection, and data fail recovery from lower cost MLC flash.

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It is noteworthy that the Optimus Max SSDs are rated for only one – three drive writes per day, hence, it cannot be used for “hot” data that is overwritten multiple times per day. For “hot” data SanDisk’s customers will have to use high-end SSDs.

“Currently, SSDs are used to accentuate high-capacity HDDs in traditional enterprise, cloud and hyperscale data centers, however, increasing numbers of IT managers are finding that they need accelerated performance,” said Laura DuBois, Program Vice President for IDC's Storage practice. “As SSDs, such as SanDisk’s new Optimus MAX, continue to increase in capacity while achieving greater cost-effectiveness, more enterprises will look to SSDs to replace their legacy HDD infrastructures in order to meet today’s high I/O applications and enterprise workload requirements.”

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The Optimus Max SSD and renewed Optimus family of drives will be available with TCG Enterprise Security Subsystem Class compliance to select OEMs and through the channel in Q3 2014. Pricing will vary.

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KitGuru Says: It will be interesting to see whether owners of data-centers will actually adopt Optimus Max-like SSDs for mission-critical and “cold” data storage. While their benefits in terms of higher performance and lower power consumption are obvious, their pricing will likely be very high. Unfortunately, we will hardly know about that for several quarters since OEMs and data-centers certify and test-drive new hardware solutions before deploying.

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