Samsung could start manufacturing Z-SSDs in 2018

[OyaYansa]

According to a report published in Business Korea, industry sources say Samsung is preparing to start manufacturing Z-SSD in 2018.

In August of last year, Samsung introduced the Z-SSD, a new solution that provides high performance and ultra-low latency for flash-based storage. These solid state hard drives share the fundamental V-NAND structure and have a unique circuit and controller design that can maximize performance, with a four times faster latency and 1.6 times better sequential reading than the best SSD of the V-NAND. company.

Now, according to the report of this Korean media, Samsung has recently developed a Z-NAND memory, the type of NAND memory that employ Z-SSDs, as well as an optimized controller, which are in the test phase. The company is looking for potential customers, and if everything goes well mass production would start next year.

The Z-NAND memory has a smaller capacity, since it is based on a single-level cell (SLC), the type of structure in which the first SSD was made. Here one bit of information can be stored in each of the memory cells, which implies a lower density compared to other structures. In return, it is the best-performing, highest, most efficient, and reliable type with over 10,000 guaranteed erase operations. Thanks to this, a Z-SSD that incorporates a Z-NAND memory has a speed of reading about seven times greater than the conventional solid state units.

Z-SSDs will be used in systems that deal with extremely intensive real-time analysis, as well as to extend high performance to all types of workloads. With this move, Samsung is preparing to face the 3D XPoint SSD technology created by Intel and Micron, which according to its developers provides a performance 1,000 times faster than NAND memory and also improves durability.