Seagate prepares a monster PCIe SSD for the data center
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Seagate has an intriguing new toy to show off at this weekend's Open Compute Project Summit. It claims to have the world's fastest solid-state drive on its hands. To back up that bit of chest-pounding, the company claims the drive has "throughput performance" of 10 GB/s. Furthermore, Seagate says the drive is ready for production and should launch sometime this summer.
Any "world's fastest" claim is a tough one to verify, especially when Seagate isn't specifying whether that 10GB/s figure describes reads or writes, nor whether it describes a random or sequential access pattern. Given that sequential figures are usually described in bytes per second, and that reads tend to be faster than writes with many drives, ...