Advanced SAS
Samsung Electronics started mass production of high capacity 800GB Solid State Drives (SSDs) based on the Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) interface.
SAS is a high-tech interface that is capable of producing SSDs twice as fast as the Serial ATA (SATA) connections primarily used for hard drives in PCs. The industry projects that the SAS SSD market will expand to challenge the current SATA SSD market.
According to the industry on August 7, Samsung Electronics is currently manufacturing a distribution type 800 GB “SM1623” SSD to meet global demand for a high quality SAS SSD. Together with the premium SAS SSD “SM1625” in sizes of 100 GB, 200 GB, 400 GB, and 800 GB, Samsung Electronics now has a full line-up of next-gen SSDs.
Distribution type SAS SSDs mass produced by Samsung Electronics use general NAND Flash, but have equivalent performance and credibility to premium SAS SSDs based on expensive enterprise NAND Flash.
Especially, distribution-type SAS SSDs currently under production enhance productivity more than 30 percent with 10 nm size general NAND Flash, compared to SSDs built with 20 nm size enterprise NAND Flash.