SK hynix to Enter 60 TB SSD Membership Subsequent Quarter

SK hynix this week reported its monetary outcomes for the second quarter, in addition to providing a glimpse at its plans for the approaching quarters. Notably among the many firm’s plans for the 12 months is the discharge of a SK hynix-branded 60 TB SSD, which is able to mark the agency’s entry into the ultra-premium enterprise SSD league.

“SK hynix plans to increase gross sales of high-capacity eSSD and lead the market within the second half with 60TB merchandise, anticipating eSSD gross sales to be greater than quadrupled in comparison with final 12 months,” a press release by SK hynix reads.

At the moment there are solely two commonplace form-factor 61.44 TB SSDs available on the market: the Solidigm D5-P5336 (U.2/15mm and E1.L), and the Samsung BM1743 (U.2/15mm and E3.S). Each are constructed from a proprietary controller (Solidigm’s controller still carries an Intel logotype) with a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface and use QLC NAND for storage.

SK hynix’s temporary point out of the drive implies that tere are not any formal specs or capabilities to debate simply but. However it’s cheap to imagine that the corporate will use its personal QLC reminiscence for his or her ultra-high-capacity drives. What’s extra intriguing are which controller the corporate plans to make use of and the way it will place its 60 TB-class SSD.

Internally, SK hynix has entry to a number of controller groups, each of which have the experience to develop an enterprise-grade controller appropriate for a 60 TB drive. SK hynix technically owns Solidigm, the previous Intel SSD and NAND unit, giving SK hynix the choice of utilizing Solidigm’s controller, and even reselling a rebadged D5-P5336 outright. Alternatively, SK hynix has their very own (authentic) inside SSD workforce, who’s chargeable for constructing their well-received Aries SSD controller, amongst different works.

Extremely-high-capacity SSDs for efficiency demanding read-intensive storage purposes, corresponding to AI inference on the sting or content material supply networks, is a promising premium market. So SK hynix is discovering itself extremely incentivized to enter it with a compelling providing.