Samsung has announced the PM9A3 SSD at the OCP Virtual Summit keynote, which features an SNIA-based E1.S form factor model and full PCIe Gen 4 support. This allows it to leverage the production efficiencies of the company’s sixth-generation (1xx-layer), three-bit V-NAND. In addition, Samsung has also introduced a comprehensive reference design for its E1.S-based storage system. Also reported at the keynote was a new approach to open-source multi-industry storage collaboration, which highlighted the development of an open-source platform connected to cloud-scale infrastructure deployments.
Samsung has announced the PM9A3 SSD at the OCP Virtual Summit keynote, which features an SNIA-based E1.S form factor model and full PCIe Gen 4 support. This allows it to leverage the production efficiencies of the company’s sixth-generation (1xx-layer), three-bit V-NAND. In addition, Samsung has also introduced a comprehensive reference design for its E1.S-based storage system. Also reported at the keynote was a new approach to open-source multi-industry storage collaboration, which highlighted the development of an open-source platform connected to cloud-scale infrastructure deployments.
In addition to E1.2, the new Samsung PM9A3 SSD will be available two other versions (U.2 and M.2 form factors) and will be available in capacities ranging from 960GB to 7.68TB. This diversity will allow support for PCIe Gen 4 and will give data center managers the ability to add more SSDs per rack unit.
Samsung indicates the following performance for the PM9A3 SSD:
| Samsung PM9A3 Speeds | Random Reads | Random Writes | Sequential Reads | Sequential Writes |
| E1.S | 900,000 IOPS | 180,000 IOPS | Up to 6500 MB/s | Up to 3500 MB/s |
| U.2 | 900,000 IOPS | 180,000 IOPS | Up to 6500 MB/s | Up to 3500 MB/s |
| M.2 | 550,000 IOPS | 70,000 IOPS | Up to 3500 MB/s | Up to 1750 MB/s |
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