News Samsung starts mass producing its fastest SSD to date — PM9E1 Gen 5 M.2 drive with speeds up to 14.5 GB/s

[Admin]

The Samsung PM9E1, an NVMe Gen 5 drive with improved reliability and speed compared to its predecessor, is in mass production.

Samsung starts mass producing its fastest SSD to date — PM9E1 Gen 5 M.2 drive with speeds up to 14.5 GB/s : Read more

 

[in_the_loop]

Wow. With 14.8 GB/s it is actually faster than the late gen of DDR3 memories that ran at 1600 Mhz that had a transfer rate of 12.8 GB/s and not far from the launch speed of DDR4 that was at 2133 MHz and 17 GB/s!

The 1600 Mhz (or MT/s to be correct) memory would bottleneck the SSD. That could be in a machine that still runs a Sandy Bridge CPU that has DD3 memory in it!
Not that anybody would, but it is still fascinating that the SSD:s are getting this fast.
Then it maybe is another matter that they don't work the same and in practice it would only bottleneck in some specific scenarios with continuous transfer of large files.
Then again, the fastest DDR5 memories are several times faster now than 14.8 GB/s...
And most people wouldn't benefit from these faster SSD:s anyway...

 

[Notton]

Is it 2400TBW for 1TB or the 4TB model?

 

[ThisIsMe]

It’s so fast you could wear it out in less than two days.

Seriously, stupid. They need to stop with these specially binned, super fast, low capacity drives that are overpriced. Just give us those cheaper higher capacity drives that have been promised for years with every marketing post about how the next 100,000 layer process will allow the production of unprecedented capacities.

Yeah, just one let down after another.

 

[nitrium]

Seriously, stupid. They need to stop with these specially binned, super fast, low capacity drives that are overpriced. Just give us those cheaper higher capacity drives that have been promised for years with every marketing post about how the next 100,000 layer process will allow the production of unprecedented capacities.

I sort of agree with your point here. I would love to replace my 20TB HDD NAS with a much smaller footprint, more energy efficient, and faster SSD solution for the same or less cost. We don't always need the fastest ever controller, or the best endurance, what about just cheap bulk storage NAND, that would give affordable 8TB SSDs?

 

[Amdlova]

Last week have some 8tb u.2/u.3 new for 400us on ebay very affordable

 

[Konomi]

It’s so fast you could wear it out in less than two days.

Seriously, stupid. They need to stop with these specially binned, super fast, low capacity drives that are overpriced. Just give us those cheaper higher capacity drives that have been promised for years with every marketing post about how the next 100,000 layer process will allow the production of unprecedented capacities.

Yeah, just one let down after another.

But when is the average person going to write that much data for it to die in such a short amount of time? They're not. SATA SSDs are still viable for bulk storage - not the fastest mind you, but they work. And for non-critical tasks (like storing a music library), you don't need high speed anyway. Most people are going to run into the issue of their ISP's speed or their own local network before you'll really benefit from faster bulk storage.

 

[newtechldtech]

Wow. With 14.8 GB/s it is actually faster than the late gen of DDR3 memories that ran at 1600 Mhz that had a transfer rate of 12.8 GB/s and not far from the launch speed of DDR4 that was at 2133 MHz and 17 GB/s!

The 1600 Mhz (or MT/s to be correct) memory would bottleneck the SSD. That could be in a machine that still runs a Sandy Bridge CPU that has DD3 memory in it!
Not that anybody would, but it is still fascinating that the SSD:s are getting this fast.
Then it maybe is another matter that they don't work the same and in practice it would only bottleneck in some specific scenarios with continuous transfer of large files.
Then again, the fastest DDR5 memories are several times faster now than 14.8 GB/s...
And most people wouldn't benefit from these faster SSD:s anyway...

They are not as fast as memory , this is ONLY sequential read/write , which is 1% of how DDRAM works ... IOPS speed is the key here and DDR3 is waaay faster than any SSD ....

 

[snemarch]

But when is the average person going to write that much data for it to die in such a short amount of time? They're not. SATA SSDs are still viable for bulk storage - not the fastest mind you, but they work. And for non-critical tasks (like storing a music library), you don't need high speed anyway. Most people are going to run into the issue of their ISP's speed or their own local network before you'll really benefit from faster bulk storage.

Around here, the prices of SATA SSD and NVMe storage (for the same capacity, major brands) are almost identical, which would make it feel insane buying SATA storage.

I wouldn't mind SATA-600 throughput if I could have much larger capacity at lower cost, while still having high endurance and low latency.