While being made for the new AMD EPYC 7002 CPU series, the new Samsung PM1733 Gen 4 SSD is something special, if a press release from Samsung is to be believed.
"Samsung's PCIe Gen 4-enabled PM1733 SSD will have double the throughput capabilities of current Gen 3 SSDs, giving it the highest performance of any SSD on the market today. It reads sequentially at 8.0GB/s and randomly at 1500K IOPS while offering capacities up to 30.72TB for U.2 (Gen 4 x4) configurations and 15.36TB for the HHHL (Gen 4 x8) form factor. The drive is produced with Gen5 512Gb TLC V-NAND."
Its uses Samsung's own SSD controller and the triple-level cell V-NAND chips, and while compatible with the old Gen3 PCIe interface, that would be like putting the motor from a Citron C1 in a Bugatti Veyron.
The U.2 designation means that it can be accessed by two systems at the same time, and with a 30 TB capacity, this should cover the need for most households - while the product is obviously intended for professional usage.
Prices are unknown, but high-end enterprise solutions are expensive, expect prices to rival that of a mid-sized car.
This comes along with another press release, in which Samsung states it has developed a developed "fail-in-place" software technology for its PM1733 and PM 1735 series.
"Samsung's FIP technology marks a new milestone in the 60-year history of storage by ensuring that SSDs maintain normal operation even when errors occur at the chip level, enabling a never-dying SSD for the first time in the industry. In the past, failure in just one out of several hundred NAND chips meant having to replace an entire SSD, causing system downtime and additional drive replacement cost. SSDs integrated with Samsung's FIP software can detect a faulty chip, scan for any damage in data, then relocate the data into working chips. For instance, if a fault is identified in any of the 512 NAND chips inside a 30.72TB SSD, the FIP software would automatically activate error-handling algorithms at the chip level while maintaining the drive's high, stable performance.
With some luck, these solutions might end up in consumer products in the future.