Samsung Electronics has started mass producing 3.2-terabyte (TB) NVMe PCIe solid state drives (SSDs) based on its 3D V-NAND (Vertical NAND) flash memory technology, for use in high-end enterprise server systems. The new NVMe PCIe SSD, SM1715, utilizes Samsung’s 3D V-NAND in an HHHL (half-height, half-length) card-type form factor, to offer 3.2TB of storage capacity -- doubling Samsung’s previous highest NVMe SSD density of 1.6TB.

The SM1715 is an upgraded version of Samsung’s XS1715 in terms of drive performance and reliability. It provides a sequential read speed of 3,000 megabytes per second (MB/s) and writes sequentially at up to 2,200MB/s. It also randomly reads at up to 750,000 IOPS (input output operations per second) and writes randomly at up to 130,000 IOPS.

In addition, the 3.2TB SM1715 features reliability with 10 DWPDs (drive writes per day) for five years.

The SM1715 comes in 1.6TB and 3.2TB versions.