Seagate Turns To SK Hynix, Rolls New Nytro XF1230 SATA SSDs

[Guest]

Seagate turned to SK Hynix NAND and SSD controllers for its latest series of SATA SSDs.

Seagate Turns To SK Hynix, Rolls New Nytro XF1230 SATA SSDs : Read more

 

[takeshi7]

The table at the top of the article says the XF1230 can do sequential writes up to 430 MB/s, but the table at the bottom shows the 480GB version can do 500MB/s.

 

[PaulAlcorn]

The table at the top of the article says the XF1230 can do sequential writes up to 430 MB/s, but the table at the bottom shows the 480GB version can do 500MB/s.

Good catch, thanks!

 

[derekullo]

Sata for ssd is like limiting a corvette to 3rd gear.

 

[PC-Cobbler]

The author scooped the competition by revealing that SK Hynix is the NAND supplier, but he omitted the lithography of the NAND. As can be seen in the user manual, the process is 16 nm. Curiously, the data sheet does not contain this information. Too bad Seagate didn't use SK Hynix's 20 nm eMLC NAND, but perhaps that's out-of-production. http://www.seagate.com/enterprise-storage/solid-state-drives/nytro-xf1230-sata-ssd/#specs

 

[PaulAlcorn]

The author scooped the competition by revealing that SK Hynix is the NAND supplier, but he omitted the lithography of the NAND. As can be seen in the user manual, the process is 16 nm. Curiously, the data sheet does not contain this information. Too bad Seagate didn't use SK Hynix's 20 nm eMLC NAND, but perhaps that's out-of-production. http://www.seagate.com/enterprise-storage/solid-state-drives/nytro-xf1230-sata-ssd/#specs

SK Hynix 16nm is pretty legit, from what I hear, but I'm surprised Seagate isn't using the SK Hynix 3D we took a look at earlier this year. I expect Seagate to transition to the 3D V2 in fairly short order, though. http://www.tomsitpro.com/articles/sk-hynix-pe3110-enterprise-m.2-ssd-3d-nand-v2,2-1042.html

Also, good find on the manual, it either wasn't there, or my eyes deceived me. I see that Seagate is spec'ing QoS now, as well, which means it is now an industry standard metric, pretty much.