At the OCP Summit Open Computing Summit, Samsung demonstrated the new NF1 style SSD, which is what Intel calls Ruler (ruler), originally called NGSFF, and sometimes called M.3.
The NF1 SSD is a bit like the enlarged version of M.2. The board size is 30.5×110mm (M.2 width is 22mm). Therefore, two rows of flash particles can be placed on each side. The capacity is naturally larger and it supports hot swap. This is crucial for servers and data centers.
In order to facilitate hot swap, Samsung also designed a metal back plate for it, and can be placed inside the metal tray.
Samsung's NF1 SSD model displayed this time as 'PM983', The main control is its own Phoenix (Phoenix), with 64-layer stacked 3D TLC flash particles, Capacity 8TB, 16TB, this is the first time that Samsung took out 16TB SSD.
Performance can not be underestimated, continuous reading and writing can reach 3GB/s, 1.9GB/s.
Another version, equipped with power-down protection capacitors.
NF1 is the new Samsung-led format. There are not many manufacturers currently supporting it. Only public A-DATA, AIC, Chaowei The on-site display system is only two sets of the latter two.
Chaowei can install up to 36 Samsung PM983s, all with 16TB capacity, and the total capacity is 576TB!
In order to promote NF1, Samsung also prepared a variety of adapter cards: The first half-height, supports PCI-E 3.0 x4, can install a NF1 SSD, 4K random write speed up to 500,000 IOPS.
The second full-height half-length, supports PCI-E 3.0 x8, can install two NF1 SSDs, a maximum capacity of 32TB, and 4K random reads up to 1 million IOPS.
The third support U.2, with PCI-E switch chip support PCI-E 3.0 x4, can install two NF1 SSD, 4K random read can reach 750,000 IOPS.
