Toshiba Memory Corporation (TMC) Now Sampling Industry’s Fastest 5 SAS and Enterprise NVMe TLC-Based Solid State Drives
Toshiba
America Electronic Components, Inc. (TAEC), a committed technology
leader, today unveiled the development of two new flagship enterprise
solid state drive (SSD) solutions, the TMC PM5 12Gbit/s SAS series and
the CM5 NVM Express® (NVMe™)1 series. Development is expected
to be completed in the fourth quarter. Both product lines are built with
TMC’s latest 64 layer, 3-bit-per-cell enterprise-class TLC (triple-level
cell) BiCS FLASH™2, making it possible for today’s demanding
storage environments to expand the use of flash with cost-optimized 3D
flash memory. With all-new, advanced features, the innovative CM5 and
PM5 series raise the bar in performance capabilities and create new
opportunities for businesses to leverage the power of flash storage.
Offering up to 30.72TB3 in a 2.5-inch form factor, the TMC
PM5 series introduces a full range of endurance and capacity SAS SSDs
enabling data centers to effectively address big data demands while
streamlining storage deployments. With the industry’s first MultiLink
SAS™4 architecture, the PM5 series is able to deliver the
fastest performance the market5 has seen from a SAS-based SSD
with up to 3,350 MB/s of sequential read and 2,720 MB/s of sequential
write6 in MultiLink mode and up to 400,000 random read IOPS7
in narrow or MultiLink mode. The PM5 series’ 4-port MultiLink design is
an additional technology to achieve high performance, close to PCI
EXPRESS® (PCIe®)8 SSDs, enabling legacy
infrastructures to increase productivity without having to be
re-architected from the ground up. Furthermore, PM5 SSDs support
multi-stream write technology, a feature that intelligently manages and
groups data types to minimize write amplification and minimize garbage
collection, translating into reduced latency, improved endurance,
increased performance and Quality of Service (QoS).
As TMC’s next generation NVMe SSD, the dual-port PCIe Gen3 x4 CM5 is a
full-featured enterprise SSD. Like the PM5, it also supports
multi-stream write technology. It is NVMe over Fabric-ready with
scatter-gather list (SGL) and controller memory buffer (CMB) features.
The CMB feature uses a part of DRAM on the SSD as host-system memory,
reducing DRAM used load of host-side and it enables high speed as a
system. Utilizing TMC’s BiCS FLASH 64-layer technology, the CM5 series
has excellent performance with up to 800,000 random read and 240,000
random write IOPS for the 5 DWPD9 (drive writes per day)
model and up to 220,000 random write IOPS for the 3 DWPD model, both
with a maximum power draw of 18W. Additionally, the CM5 is being used as
a platform to demonstrate and to enable the ecosystem around the
Persistent Memory Region (PMR) capability. PMR enables customers to
augment system memory with DRAM on the SSD without the use of expensive
non-volatile DIMMs (NV-DIMMs). This feature makes it possible for a
single SSD solution to provide both high performance storage and
persistent memory to meet system performance requirements, while
significantly reducing costs by moving metadata operations, such as
logging, journaling and application staging to the SSD.
“We are proud to be first to market with new enterprise flash
innovations to further broaden our enterprise SSD portfolio and
re-writing the rules for enterprise SSDs using 3D TLC FLASH,” said Steve
Fingerhut, senior vice president and general manager of Toshiba America
Electronic Components, Inc., SSD business unit. “Toshiba’s customers
demand more out of storage and Toshiba delivers enterprise solutions
that fit application needs.”
“Broadcom and Toshiba have a long history of collaborating to maximize
system performance and reliability for our server/storage OEMs and
datacenter customers,” said Jas Tremblay, General Manager, Data Center
Solutions Group at Broadcom. "Toshiba’s new PM5 SSD supporting MultiLink
SAS enables system customers to experience the highest performance from
the mature and reliable SAS ecosystem.”
PM5 12Gbit/s SAS SSDs will be available in capacities ranging from 400GB
to 30.72TB with sanitize instant erase (SIE) and Trusted Computing Group
(TCG). CM5 NVMe SSDs will offer capacities ranging from 800GB to 15.36TB
with SIE and TCG. Both TLC-based product lines offer industry standard
endurance ratings with 1, 3, and 5 DWPD options, and the PM5 has a 10
DWPD option available.
The PM5 and CM5 series is sampling to select OEM customers and will be
unveiled and demonstrated at the Flash Memory Summit in Santa Clara, CA,
from August 8 to 10 in booth #407.
For more information on Toshiba’s line of industry-leading SSDs, please
visit: http://toshiba.semicon-storage.com/us/product/storage-products.html.
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Technical and application information contained here is subject to the
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1 *As of August 2017, based on TMC survey NVM Express and the
NVM Express logo are registered trademarks, and NVMe is a trademark of
NVM Express, Inc.
2 NAND/BiCS FLASH: Product density is identified based on the
maximum density of memory chip(s) within the Product, not the amount of
memory capacity available for data storage by the end user.
Consumer-usable capacity will be less due to overhead data areas,
formatting, bad blocks, and other constraints, and may also vary based
on the host device and application.
3 Definition of capacity: Toshiba Memory Corporation defines
a megabyte (MB) as 1,000,000 bytes, a gigabyte (GB) as 1,000,000,000
bytes and a terabyte (TB) as 1,000,000,000,000 bytes. A computer
operating system, however, reports storage capacity using powers of 2
for the definition of 1TB = 240 bytes = 1,099,511,627,776
bytes and therefore shows less storage capacity. Available storage
capacity (including examples of various media files) will vary based on
file size, formatting, settings, software and operating system, such as
Microsoft Operating System and/or pre-installed software applications,
or media content. Actual formatted capacity may vary.
4 MultiLink SAS is a trademark of the SCSI Trade Association
5 As of August 7, 2017, based on industry-published
specifications, TMC survey
6 Read and write speed may vary depending on the host device,
read and write conditions, and file size.
7 IOPS: Input Output Per Second (or the number of I/O
operations per second)
8 PCIe® and PCI EXPRESS® are registered trademarks of PCI-SIG
9 DWPD: Drive Write Per Day. One full drive write per day
means the drive can be written and re-written to full capacity once a
day every day for five years, the stated product warranty period. Actual
results may vary due to system configuration, usage and other factors
* All other company names, product names, and service names mentioned
herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
