SanDisk Announces Second Generation CloudSpeed Ultra SATA Enterprise SSD
by Billy Tallis on August 11, 2015 5:00 PM EST- Posted in
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At Flash Memory Summit today SanDisk announced the second generation of their CloudSpeed Ultra enterprise drive. This is the sibling to the gen. 2 CloudSpeed Eco that was announced in June.
As with the Eco gen. 2, the Ultra gen. 2 transitions from 19nm to 15nm MLC and brings a reduced endurance rating but increased performance. The Ultra model continues to be geared for mixed read/write workloads while the Eco is for more read-intensive uses.
| SanDisk Enterprise SATA SSDs | |||
| Drive | Ultra gen. 2 | Eco gen. 2 | Ultra gen. 1 |
| Capacities | 400GB, 800GB, 1600GB | 480GB, 960GB, 1920GB | 100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 800GB |
| NAND | SanDisk 15nm MLC | SanDisk 15nm MLC | SanDisk 19nm MLC |
| Sequential Read | 530 MB/s | 530 MB/s | 450 MB/s |
| Sequential Write | 460 MB/s | 460 MB/s | 400 MB/s |
| 4kB Random Read IOPS | 76k | 76k | 75k |
| 4kB Random Write IOPS | 32k | 14k | 30k |
| Endurance Rating | 1.8 DWPD | 0.6 DWPD | 3 DWPD |
SanDisk is already supplying the CloudSpeed Ultra gen. 2 to several major customers for large-scale deployments and it will be more broadly available later in 2015, where it will be competing against drives like Samsung's SM863 and Intel's DC S3610. Pricing will be under $1/GB, but we don't know by how much. It probably won't be undercut by Intel's DC S3610, but to be competitive it will need to be down near Samsung's $0.66/GB for the SM863.
Source: SanDisk
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dgingeri - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link
Those numbers are pretty low. I think the 850 Pro outdoes that on every level.Morawka - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link
and has the 10 year warranty to bootMrSpadge - Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - link
But the 850 Pro doesn't have "Cloud" and "Ultra" in the name, so it's not trendy enough :pdgingeri - Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - link
It has "Pro" in the name, which makes it good for me. :)leexgx - Sunday, August 16, 2015 - link
these drives will have 1-20PB of Write endurance warranty depending on size of SSD and DWPD rating (the 850 pro is what 150-300TB? but seems good all the way up to 2PB if you ignore warranty on the Pro drives)tygrus - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link
Are those IOPS peak or steady state ? They are more READ optimised for archived data not WRITE intensive uses.guntherzssd - Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - link
no manufacturer posts steady state benchmarks..