Seagate Introduces 10GB/s PCIe SSD and Showcases 60TB SSD

Seagate introduces the Nytro XP7200, a PCIe plug-in module that features four NVME SSDs with an M2 connection. The card must enable transfer speeds of 10GB/s. The manufacturer also shows a 3.5 “ssd with a storage capacity of 60TB.

The arrival of a PCIe SSD with a speed of 10GB/s was already announced by Seagate in March. The manufacturer has now announced the actual product at the Flash Memory Summit conference. It concerns the Nytro XP7200, a PCIe plug-in card that is equipped with four m2 SSDs. To achieve the speed of 10GB/s, four of the recently announced XM1440-m2 NVME modules are used with a capacity of 1920GB each. This brings the total storage space to about 7.7TB. There will also be a version with a capacity of 3.8TB, which uses four 960GB SSDs.

To achieve the claimed speeds, the four NVME SSDs must be run in a raid 0 setup using software. According to Seagate, the Nytro XP7200 will then achieve a sequential read speed of 10GB/s and a sequential write speed of 3.6GB/s. This is 940,000 iops for random reads and 160,000 iops for writes. The first samples will be sent in September and the card should be on the market in the fourth quarter.

Seagate will also be showing a 3.5″ SAS SSD with a 60TB capacity at the conference. The SSD uses Micron’s 3D TLC NAND and a single controller. The sequential read and write speeds are according to the manufacturer. 1500 and 1000MB/s Random read is 150,000 iops, Seagate says Random write information has not been disclosed Seagate has not yet given the 60TB SSD a product name and at this point it is only a demonstration of what is possible.