Seagate will launch their 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe PCI-Express card, the unit has been fitted with four NVMe SSDs based on M2. The card will produce rather astonishing numbers above the 10.000 MB per second.

At an event at the Flash Memory Summit kicked off in Santa Clara Seagate was able ti impress. They will be offering a new 60TB SAS SSD as well as athe 8TB Nytro XP7200 NVMe PCIe card.

The Nytro XP7200 is a PCIe plug-in card equipped with four-m2 SSD's. To be able to get towards the acclaimed 10GB/s they will use four controllers and thus SSD partitions with a capacity of 1920GB each which are then setup in a RAID 0. A rather old trick that does not always work out well. Performance specs for the 8TB Nytro are; 10,000MB/s sequential read, 3,600MB/s sequential write, 940K random read IOPS, 160K random write IOPS, and a peak power usage of 26W. The first samples will be sent in Q4 2016. Prices have not been announced.

Seagate also showed a SAS SSD in 3.5" format that holds a massive of 60TB. The SSD uses 3D TLC-NAND from Micron and uses a single controller. Claimed performance specs quoted for this drive are; 1,500MB/s sequential read, 1,000MB/s sequential write, 150K random read IOPS, and a peak power usage of 15W. This SSD is a demo model only, and could reach the market anywhere in 2017.