NVMe solid state drive read speed tops out at 3,000Mb/s

Samsung Electronics has revealed that its new 2.5inch (SFF-8639) NVM Express (NVMe) PCIe solid state drive (SSD), to open up the high-end enterprise storage market.

The XS1715's random read performance reaches up to 740,000 IOPS (Input Output Operations Per Second). The high-speed 1.6TB NVMe SSD provides a sequential read speed at 3,000Mb/s, which allows it to process 500Gb of data in less than three minutes. The new SSD is six times faster than the company's former high-end enterprise SSD storage.

The new NVMe SSD XS1715 comes in 400GB, 800GB and 1.6TB (terabytes) versions. It can also be found on the NVMe Integrators List (IL)**, which makes it an easy-to-manage and highly reliable solution for data centre and server storage customers. System performance can be improved dramatically by upgrading to the NVMe SSD XS1715 from a 2.5inch SATA SSD.