Samsung says its latest pcie 4.0 ssd drives 'can't die'

One of the benefits of the recent launch of the AMD Ryzen 3000 series of processors was the arrival of the PCIe 4.0 interface. Offering insanely faster speeds, we've seen several manufacturers rush to launch products that take advantage of them, such as Samsung.

Samsung promises that its new SSD drives can never fail

Apparently, the advent of PCIe 4.0 technology is bringing some other benefits besides bandwidth speed. In a nutshell, Samsung is claiming that its new disk drives 'can't die'.

Samsung's latest units, the PM1733 and PM1735 series, are available in 19 different models and are primarily aimed at the server market. With 6, 400 / 3, 800 MHz read / write speeds, they clearly pack some blazingly fast transfer speeds. Speeds that, incidentally, are close to 8, 000 MHz in the form of a card for the units.

The most impressive claim, however, is that Samsung has said that it is virtually impossible for these units to die.

Solid state drives (as a whole) are, of course, much more durable than standard hard drives. In large part thanks to the small problem that they have (generally speaking) no moving parts. These new units, however, aim to take a big step forward in this regard.

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With its 'fail-in-place' (FIP) software, the unit will automatically detect any faulty NAND chips. From there, it will transfer the data to another part of the drive, and that bad sector will never be used anymore, preventing future failures.

In theory, it means that these solid state drives could never be placed in a situation where the data was inaccessible. As if this were not enough, they also have a technology that can effectively allow a disk drive to be 'divided' into 64 separate disk drives. At the moment, this technology is only available for units focused on servers, but surely we will have it present also in SSD mass consumption sooner rather than later.

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