News Samsung Launches PM1733 PCIe 4.0 SSD: Up To 8 GB/s and 30TB

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The Samsung PM1733 boasts sequential and random reads up to 8 GB/s and 1,500,000 IOPS, respectively.

Samsung Launches PM1733 PCIe 4.0 SSD: Up To 8 GB/s and 30TB : Read more

 

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[bit_user]

One of the Samsung PM1733 U.2's attributes is the support for the dual-port technology, meaning the drive is accessible by two different systems simultaneously.

Hmmm...

First, I thought this might be some confusion with the dual-links involved in SATA-Express.

SATA Express - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

But, it seems that dual-port NVMe really does involve bifurcating the x4 link into 2 x2 links, each of which can be connected to a separate controller. This isn't a terribly good explanation, but seems to confirm that dual-port is really a feature aimed at high-availability & fault-tolerance:

An Introduction to Dual-Port NVMe SSD. - IT Peer Network

March 31st 2016. It’s last day of Q1 and it’s full of surprises. If you missed the announcement, take a chance and spend a minute reading press release. I’m proud today; we at NSG (Non-volatile Memory Solutions Group) have just released new products, based on very new to the industry...

itpeernetwork.intel.com

It's a weird feature, because you generally cannot connect a drive to multiple hosts for the simple purpose of data-sharing. I've heard of people doing this decades ago, using SCSI drives, but filesystems and the host I/O subsystems of the day were much simpler.