- Silicon Exercise SM8466 SSD brings enterprise quality speed and security to the future of data infrastructure
- Up to 512TB Nand makes this controller ready for tomorrow’s storage -heavy workload
- Designed to scale not your setup this SSD will probably remain in the server room
Silicon Exercise’s new SM8466 SSD controller makes a strong case for what the next generation’s storage could deliver.
Built using the TSMCS 4NM process, the controller is designed for performance-heavy environments and claims to almost double the flow of PCI 5.0 devices.
But while its specifications may seem tailor -made to the fastest SSDs in business settings, its practical relevance to consumers’ desktops remains questionable, at least at least at the moment.
Performance figures promise a jump, but for whom?
Silicon exercise claims that SM8466 can hit a top sequential reading speed of 28 GB per day. Second, almost twice as large as PCIE 5.0 solutions.
This type of performance may be ideal for real-time analysis, large database operations and high-definition media treatment, but for most users exceed such capabilities long every day.
The 7 million random IOPs (input/output operations per second) for reader and writes further suggests its optimization of virtualized environments and high load scenarios where latency is to be kept low and response times consistent.
Whether this qualifies it as the best SSD is a matter of perspective, especially given the limited relevance to mainstream PCs.
From a system design point of view, the controller’s support for up to 512TB Nand -Nand promises for the Hyperscale Storage applications.
However, this jump in storage capacity is not ready to redefine the consumer market.
Even the largest HDD settings currently available for desktop use are not approaching this scale and integrating such a capacity into a single PCIe SSD will be both cost-assessing and thermally challenging external data centers.
In addition to raw performance, the SM8466 includes a package of features aimed at company installation.
It supports safe startup, AES-256 encryption and TCG Opal Compliance, which together aims to meet modern data protection requirements.
Its smart monitoring system adds an additional layer of diagnostics and detection of early failure, but these features are more useful in server racks than home rigs.
Physical consolidates the SCA interface power, data and control in a single plug, streamline installation and minimization of cabling complexity.
Virtualization technologies such as SR-IOV and MPF allow the controller to present more virtual storage functions, which further strengthens the appeal to cloud service providers rather than average users.
The benefits of SM8466 are clear for large environments with high demand, but the average consumer is likely to not experience these benefits until the decade ends.
Via Guru3d
