Samsung said new software for its latest PCIe 4.0 SSDs make them so reliable, they can essentially ânever die.âThree new software features were announced in total, with two tied to data integrity: a virtualization technology dubbed âV-NAND machine learning technologyâ to verify data, and âfail-in-place.â Officials said FIP allows an SSD continue running normally even during chip-level failures.Fail-in-place can detect a failed or failing NAND chip, check for damaged data, and then move that data to undamaged parts of the drive.
Samsung cited its 30.72TB PM1733 SSD, which contains 512 NAND chips inside.
If any of those 512 chips failed, lit would continue to roll along.Yes, if you saw the 30.72TB capacity, you can guess the SSD isnât intended to be sold to consumers.
The PM1733 is a PCIe 4.0 drive, which mean itâs best paired with a newer AMD-based Epyc server that supports PCIe 4.0 speeds.No price was announced for the PM1733 last month, but itâll come in the U.2 form factor in capacities of 0.96TB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB, 15.36TB and 30.72 TB.Samsung will also offer an add-in board of Half Height, Half Length (HHHL) as well with lower capacities of 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB and 15.36TB.
The U.2 SSDs are rated at 6,400MBps reads and 3,800MBps writes.
The HHHL cards are rated at 8,000MBps reads and 3,8000MBps writes.