Sandisk Stargate is a new architecture to raise business storage to unknown dimensions. In performance for the possibilities of solid state units and especially in capacity, with potential to climb up to 1 Pbyte.
After several years as a Digital Western subsidiary, Sandisk separated from the parent company earlier this year. The former director of WD, David Goeckeler, current CEO of Sandisk, has ambitious projects underway. The Executive analyzed the potential of the company’s main project for the business market, Sandisk Stargate, a solution that will significantly boost business storage.
The project implies a New controller architecture and an ASIC design, combined with the company Flash Nand BICS 8 QLC of the company. The roadmap presented during the Sandish inverter’s day includes a solid state unit of 128 TB that will be launched this year, followed by a 256 TB model in 2026 and a 512 TB version in 2027. The ultimate goal is to offer a 1 PB storage unit, satisfying the high capacity demands of artificial intelligence companies and large technological technological ones, which continue to guide their business towards the chatbots.
Stargate will boost a new business storage platform called “Ultra QLC” (also known as DC SN670), with models of 64 TB and 128 TB that will be delivered in the third quarter of this year. Customers can expect significant improvements in performance, since random reading speed will improve 68 %, random writing 55 % and sequential reading and writing by 7 % and 27 %, respectively.
Thanks to the QLC memory, each storage unit will have a capacity of 2 TB per chip. Stargate will climb up to 64 matrices per channel, and the 512 TB unit will use 32 channels. It should be noted that typical customer SSDs offer up to eight channels, so complex storage management technologies such as Stargate will not be available in short -term consumption SSDs. This technology will focus on the business sectorwhich will remain a key focus for sandisk and for flash -based storage technologies that are making a hole in data centers in front of hard drives.
As for the use interfaces, the first units of the platform will use the current PCIE 5.0, although Sandisk Stargate is expected to take advantage of in the future the capacities of upcoming versions of the standard.
