Samsung Demos PCIe NVMe SSD At 5.6 GB Per Second, 1 Million IOPS (hothardware.com)

MojoKid writes: Samsung decided to show off their latest SSD wares at Dell World 2015 with two storage products that are sure to impress data center folks. Up and running on display, Samsung showcased their PM1725 drive, which is a half-height, half-length (HHHL) NVMe SSD that will be one of the fastest on the market when it ships later this year. It sports transfer speeds of 5500MB/sec for sequential reads and 1800MB/s for writes. Samsung had the drive running in a server with Iometer fired up and pushing in excess of 5.6GB/sec. The PM1725 also is rated for random reads up to 1,000,000 IOPS and random writes of 120,000 IOPS. The top of the line 6.4TB SSD is rated to handle 32TB of writes per day with a 5-year warranty.

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Re:Makes sense

[ledow]

With storage systems moving from the local system into the cloud, you have inherent bottlenecks on the networking.

This might be able to do stupendous speeds but no amount of disk speed will help you get your files up and down. You might be able to process them in the cloud but actually moving them between the cloud and not is still limited by your downstream.

As such, it's actually LOCAL users who are going to benefit more from fast storage, not cloud providers. Hell, just data protection alone is in the spotlight at the moment and has the EU and US arguing and we're on the verge of every cloud company having to have at least a European-only data centre storage (so all the advantages of cloud being a world-wide solution are nullified because you can only hold EU data within the EU).

And, to be honest, Cloud is really just the new name for "external hosted". It's nothing fancy.

Re:Makes sense

[Anonymous Coward]

As such, it's actually LOCAL users who are going to benefit more from fast storage, not cloud providers.

Only if you completely ignore all processing of stored data within the cloud infrastructures.

Uploading and download files to/from a cloud isn't really where a super-fast SSD will be used, primarily.

Re:Rating vs. Warranty

[TheRaven64]

You don't need an explicit warranty anywhere with sensible consumer protection laws. The Sale of Goods Act in the UK (and equivalents in most EU countries) allow you to return the goods for a full refund if they do not meet the promises made at time of sale. I had a battery fail in an Apple laptop after four and a half years, but within the number of charge cycles that their ads claimed. They replaced it (couriered out a replacement that arrived at 9am the day after I called them at 3pm - better service than I've ever had from them for anything under warranty) as soon as I mentioned the Sale of Goods Act.