Despite the fact that the cost of SSDs has dropped by about 10% over the past few months, manufacturers continue to release new systems. Thus, NGD introduced a 12 TB drive. Its feature is not so much the amount of memory as its own 4-core processor.
It is used to interact with flash memory, as well as for encryption, compression, indexing, data retrieval, plus transcoding of media files. NGD System released this SSD in E1.S. form factor. This system is intended, of course, not for user devices, but for corporate devices.
Previously, the company released several such SSDs, but their capacity was limited to 8 TB, and among the form factors were only M.2. True, the company has released another model - a more capacious U.2 version with a capacity of up to 32 TB. Therefore, the new system has occupied an intermediate niche.
As for the processor, its architecture is ARM, it is capable of running Ubuntu Linux and Docker.
As for the characteristics, the linear read speed is 1.6 GB / s, random operations - 128,000 IOPS, 200,000 IOPS in the case of random writes in 4K blocks. The flash array is recruited by the developers with 3D TLC memory, while the interface is limited by PCIe 3.0 capabilities. In terms of volume, 12 TB is net capacity. The system has only 9.6 TB available. If we talk about a less capacious 6 TB model, then the system in this case only has 4.87 TB available.
An SSD with a processor allows you to take on a large amount of workload when working in networked systems, so that the resources of these systems can be used for solving other tasks, which increases the overall efficiency of the data center.
