Samsung the global leader in storage chips has launched its first 60TB SSD. The high capacity SSD is made for business use.

The company adds it is possible to make 120TB SSD due to its new controller.

Samsung PM1743 is A61.44TB SSD

Samsung is mega famous SSD brand its SSDs were restricted to storage capacity of 32TB.

The company has launched a 61.44 TB variat of PM1743 SSD. This 60TB class SSD will contest with Solidigm D5-P5336 Western Digital 60TB class enterprise SSDs.

Samsung will have low contest in market as its main enemy Micron, SK Hynix and Kioxia have yet to launch 60TB class SSDs.

This new SSD will available for servers in two shape factors U.2 and PCle 4.0 x4. It will available in E3 S fro PCle 5.0×4 interface for high storage machines.

Price and power consumption figures have not been disclosed yer.

Drives cost almost $7000.

The PM1743 uses Samsung 176 layer 7th Generation VNAND QLC memory and proprietary controller.

Its read speed is 7.2GBps.IT sequential write speed reach up to 2 GBps.

It has 1600,000 random reads and 110,000 random write IOPS.

It has endurance of 0.26 drive writes per day DWPD for 5 years.

The BM1743 is built with Samsung v7 QLC V-NAND flash memory. QLC stands for quad level cell.

NAND memory can offer high capacities but at expense of performance compared to triple level cell. TLC NAND used in PC SSDs.

The BM1743 pick up from past BM1733a but quadruples this drive storage capacity from 15.36TB to 61.44TB.

The drive uses U2 form factor where NAND chips are packed into box that slots into drive bay a bit like 2-5 inch SATA drive but using PCle interface.

The BM1743 use the PCle 4 interface with Samsung boasting a sequential read speed of 7,200 MB and write speed of 2000MB/s

Samsung tells the drive can come in mega case using the E3S form factor and then gain rapid performance form PCle 5 interface as used on rapid gaming SSD like Crucial T705.