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posted by chromas on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:27PM   Printer-friendly

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/08/08/supermicros_1_pb_slimster/:

Supermicro has crammed 1PB of Intel flash rulers into the slimmest possible 1U rack storage server.

The two-socket server can hold up to 32 Intel EDSFF, NVMe-connected flash drives – giving a rack density of 1PB/U, the highest we have ever come across.

EDSFF stands for Chipzilla's Enterprise and Datacenter Storage Form Factor, which measures 325.35mm long, 9.5mm wide and 38.6mm high.

These front-mounted SSD DC P4500 Series drives are hot-swappable and each has a 32TB capacity, using 64-layer TLC (3bits/cell) 3D NAND. An Intel tech brief (PDF) provides the details.

We're told the drives are thermally optimised to require less airflow than a 2.5-inch U.2 SSD.

The performance numbers are heroic. Supermicro president and CEO Charles Liang said the product provides "13 million IOPS and 52GB/sec throughput in 1U" and claimed it outperforms any previous system available.

[...] Supermicro announced a 288TB 1U storage server in January using 8TB Samsung ruler SSDs. A 256TB version using previous 8TB Intel ruler SSDs was introduced in May. That has been well and truly exceeded with these 32TB drives.

Looking at this Samsung and Intel ruler data suggested to us a 64-layer Samsung flash ruler could exceed 32TB in capacity. And, we hasten to add, 96-layer flash is being developed, along with 4bits/cell QLC technology. That means we can realistically have an expectation of 64TB EDSFF drives in the 2019/2020 timeframe, meaning a 2PB/1U Supermicro product could emerge.


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  • (Score: 2) by martyb on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:57PM (1 child)

    by martyb (76) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 08 2018, @10:57PM (#719090) Journal

    Supermicro Breaths in, Shimmies One PB of Intel Flash Into a Single Rack

    Breaths is a noun meaning "more than one breath". TFA says "breathes", a verb that makes sense in the context.

    Yes, "Breaths" should have been "Breathes".

    Yes, it WAS misspelled by The Register in the original version of the story [sylnt.us].

    It has since been fixed, both at The Register, and here on SoylentNews.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:00PM

    by requerdanos (5997) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday August 08 2018, @11:00PM (#719091) Journal

    it WAS misspelled by The Register

    To be honest, their standards, for a mass media organization that pays salaries and sells advertising, are not that high. Problem is that their stories are still interesting.