- Silicon Motion SM8466 SSD provides business quality speed and security in the future of data infrastructure
- Up to 512 TB of NAND prepares this controller for heavy storage workloads of tomorrow
- Designed for the scale, not your configuration, this SSD will probably remain in the server room
The new SSD SM8466 SSD controller from Silicon Motion pleads for what new generation storage could provide.
Built using TSMC 4 NM process, the controller is designed for heavy environments and almost doubles the flow of PCIe 5.0 devices.
But although its specifications may seem adapted to the fastest SSDs in corporate parameters, its practical relevance for consumer office computers remains questionable, at least for the moment.
The performance figures promise a jump, but for whom?
Silicon Motion claims that the SM8466 can strike a sequential reading speed of 28 GB per second, near the double of the flow of PCIe 5.0 solutions.
This type of performance can be ideal for real -time analysis, large -scale database operations and high definition media processing, but for most users, these capacities far exceed daily requirements.
The 7 million random IOPS (entry / release operations per second) for readings and entries also suggest its optimization for virtualized environments and high -load scenarios where latency must be maintained low and coherent response times.
The question of whether it calls it best SSD is a question of perspective, in particular given the limited relevance for traditional PCs.
From the point of view of the system design, the controller’s management for up to 512 TB of Nand Sonne promising for hyperscal storage applications.
However, this storage capacity jump is not about to redefine the consumption market.
Even the largest hard drive options currently available for the use of office do not approach this scale, and the integration of such a capacity in a single SSD PCIe will be both prohibitive and thermally difficult of external data centers.
Beyond raw performance, the SM8466 includes a series of features intended for the deployment of business.
It supports secure start-up, AES-256 encryption and OPAL TCG compliance, which together aim to meet modern data protection requirements.
Its intelligent monitoring system adds an additional layer of diagnostics and early detection of failures, but these features are more useful in servers racks than platforms.
Physically, the SCA interface consolidates power, data and management in a single connector, rationalizing installation and minimizing the complexity of the wiring.
Virtualization technologies such as SR-IOV and MPF allow the controller to present several virtual storage functions, further strengthening its appeal to cloud service providers rather than average users.
The advantages of the SM8466 are clear for large -scale and high demand environments, but the average consumer is unlikely to feel these advantages before the end of the decade.
Via guru3D
