Samsung just announced that it has begun mass production of its massive 30.72TB PM1643, the industry’s highest capacity Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) solid state drive (SSD). And Samsung is claiming the new 30.72TB drive delivers not only twice the capacity of its previous-gen 15.36TB high-capacity drive introduced in March 2016, but twice the performance too. SamsungThe PM1643 drive also uses Through Silicon Via (TSV) technology to interconnect 8Gb DDR4 chips to creating ten, 4GB TSV DRAM packages, for a total of 40GB of DRAM in the drive. According to Samsung, the PM1643 is the first drive in which TSV-applied DRAM has been used in an SSD. Samsung began manufacturing initial quantities of the 30.72TB PM1643 in January and plans to expand the lineup later this year with 15.36TB, 7.68TB, 3.84TB, 1.92TB, 960GB and 800GB versions.

Source: Forbes February 20, 2018 21:56 UTC