Samsung unveils fastest PCIe Gen 6 SSD, capable of transferring 40GB LLMs in just 1.4 sec
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In brief: Samsung has started mass production of its PM1763 enterprise-class SSD, featuring a PCIe 6.0 interface that promises double the throughput of PCIe Gen 5. The new drives are designed to meet the fast, reliable storage demands of cutting-edge AI data centers and high-performance computing environments.
The 16TB model delivers sequential read and write speeds of up to 28.4 GB/s and 21.9 GB/s, respectively, while claimed random read and write performance reaches up to 6,800K and 950K IOPS. At these speeds, the new SSDs can transfer a 40GB LLM in just 1.4 seconds, roughly twice as fast as the PCIe Gen 5-based PM1753 drives, which require around 2.7 seconds to complete the same task.
The Gen 6 drives are built using Samsung's 9th-generation V-NAND and a newly developed 4nm controller, which...
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