Seagate introduces PCIe SSD and 60TB SAAS SSD

American data storage company, Seagate is moving towards production of more efficient drives. With the aim to cause further boom in the disk drive market, they are certainly expanding with greater innovations. They are set to introduce two new, record-breaking enterprise SSDs at the Flash Memory Summit, later this year.

The first drive, known as the Nytro XP7200 is based on four Nytro XM1440 M.2 SSDs under one heat sink on a full height expansion card. It does not include a PCIe switch chip which means that the card can only be fully utilized in PCIe x16 slots that support operation as four separate x4 links. The Nytro XP7200 is available in capacities of either 3.8TB or 7.7TB.

The second drive, which is still unnamed, packs 60TB of 3D TLC into a 3.5” drive along with a Dual port 12Gb/s SAS interface. Seagate’s recently introduced, ONFi bridge chip enables connecting endless Micron’s 3D TLC NAND to a single SSD controller, too. This drive is only a technology demonstration for time being.

While, the new introductions seem largely incredible given exploration into this segment has still hasn’t taken place; many feel such fast SSDs are not meant for a majority of the consumers. Let’s wait till the consumers’ reactions.