PM863

At CES, Samsung displayed a variety of new SSD solutions, including PM863 and SM863, the company's new SATA 6Gbps enterprise drives. At the time Samsung was only sampling its key OEM customers, but with today's announcement Samsung is making the drives available through its retail channel in early August. The PM863 and SM863 are based on Samsung's in-house "Mercury" controller, but unfortunately I don't have any additional details on the controller architecture itself. I'm guessing it's a derivative of the client-grade controllers utilizing ARM Cortex R4, but I'll have to wait for Samsung's reply before I know for sure. Samsung PM863 Specifications Capacity 120GB 240GB 480GB 960GB 1.92TB 3.84TB Controller Samsung "Mercury" NAND Samsung 32-layer 128Gbit TLC V-NAND Sequential Read 380MB/s 520MB/s 525MB/s 520MB/s 510MB/s 540MB/s Sequential Write 125MB/s 245MB/s 460MB/s 475MB/s 475MB/s 480MB/s 4KB Random Read 86K IOPS 99K IOPS 99K IOPS 99K IOPS 99K IOPS 99K IOPS 4KB Random Write 5K IOPS 10K IOPS 17K IOPS 18K IOPS 18K IOPS 18K IOPS Read Power 2.4W 2.7W 2.9W 2.9W 3.0W 3.0W Write...