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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

Seagate will demo a 10 GB/s SSD [theregister.co.uk] at the Open Compute Project Summit 2016 in San Jose, California, from March 9-10:

Seagate is going to demonstrate a 10GB/sec PCI flash card that spews out bits like a fire hose on steroids at the coming Open Compute Project Summit.

There will actually be two cards shown: an 8-lane and a 16-lane product. Both are compatible with Facebook's Open Compute Project (OCP), which aims to drive down the costs of IT hardware components for hyperscale data centres. We are not told any performance details at all apart from the 10GB/sec throughput for the 16-lane card, which will make it the fastest SSD available, and a 6.7GB/sec throughput rating for the 8-lane card. Both use an NVMe interface.

Seagate's Brett Pemble, SSD products VP and GM, provided a canned quote: "Whether for consumer cloud or business applications, this SSD will help improve on demands for fast access to information, where split seconds drive incremental value gains."

Potential customers are thought to be large-scale cloud providers and web applications, weather modelling, and statistical trends analysis. It could be used to process data for object storage or real-time needs, according to Seagate.

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