Samsung is completing development of a PCIe 5.0 SSD, the manufacturer’s first model to support the new standard.
The drive, called PM1743, will be available from 2022. The model has several versions. The capacity ranges from 1.92TB to 15.36TB. PCIe 5.0 support is the common denominator – and the most important feature of all.
PCIe
Motherboards of servers, desktops and laptops include PCIe inputs to connect CPUs, GPUs and SSDs. The PCIe input plays a major role in the speed at which components communicate with each other. Since countless applications run on multiple components, the capacity of a PCIe input dictates the speed of countless applications.
Innovations to the standard are introduced per generation. Each generation doubles the bandwidth limit. Server and component manufacturers do not always immediately adopt the new standard. Support will only become common once the majority of the market supports the standard. For example, the specifications of PCIe 5.0 have been known since May 2019, but drive manufacturers have only been giving any sound about the development of modernized models for a few months.
Samsung is one of the manufacturers. The organization says it has completed development of a PCIe 5.0-ready model. Mass production will start in early 2022. The promise is a data center-worthy, high-end SSD.
