At Flash Memory Summit today SanDisk announced the second generation of their CloudSpeed Ultra enterprise drive. This is the sibling to the gen. 2 CloudSpeed Eco that was announced in June.

As with the Eco gen. 2, the Ultra gen. 2 transitions from 19nm to 15nm MLC and brings a reduced endurance rating but increased performance. The Ultra model continues to be geared for mixed read/write workloads while the Eco is for more read-intensive uses.

SanDisk Enterprise SATA SSDs
Drive Ultra gen. 2 Eco gen. 2 Ultra gen. 1
Capacities 400GB, 800GB, 1600GB 480GB, 960GB, 1920GB 100GB, 200GB, 400GB, 800GB
NAND SanDisk 15nm MLC SanDisk 15nm MLC SanDisk 19nm MLC
Sequential Read 530 MB/s 530 MB/s 450 MB/s
Sequential Write 460 MB/s 460 MB/s 400 MB/s
4kB Random Read IOPS 76k 76k 75k
4kB Random Write IOPS 32k 14k 30k
Endurance Rating 1.8 DWPD 0.6 DWPD 3 DWPD

SanDisk is already supplying the CloudSpeed Ultra gen. 2 to several major customers for large-scale deployments and it will be more broadly available later in 2015, where it will be competing against drives like Samsung's SM863 and Intel's DC S3610. Pricing will be under $1/GB, but we don't know by how much. It probably won't be undercut by Intel's DC S3610, but to be competitive it will need to be down near Samsung's $0.66/GB for the SM863.

Source: SanDisk

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  • dgingeri - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link

    Those numbers are pretty low. I think the 850 Pro outdoes that on every level.
  • Morawka - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link

    and has the 10 year warranty to boot
  • MrSpadge - Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - link

    But the 850 Pro doesn't have "Cloud" and "Ultra" in the name, so it's not trendy enough :p
  • dgingeri - Wednesday, August 12, 2015 - link

    It has "Pro" in the name, which makes it good for me. :)
  • leexgx - Sunday, August 16, 2015 - link

    these drives will have 1-20PB of Write endurance warranty depending on size of SSD and DWPD rating (the 850 pro is what 150-300TB? but seems good all the way up to 2PB if you ignore warranty on the Pro drives)
  • tygrus - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link

    Are those IOPS peak or steady state ? They are more READ optimised for archived data not WRITE intensive uses.
  • guntherzssd - Tuesday, August 25, 2015 - link

    no manufacturer posts steady state benchmarks..

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