Sandisk in one-two SSD punch for AI compute age

Sandisk released the NAS 600 SATA SSD and NAS 800 NVMe SSD, designed for network-attached storage environments to support AI workloads. The NAS 600 offers capacities up to 4TB with endurance up to 2,500 TBW, while the NAS 800 supports PCIe 5.0, capacities up to 7.68TB, and endurance up to 14 PBW. Anil Moolchandani, vice president of product management at Sandisk, said the portfolio meets evolving demands of prosumers and small businesses managing larger datasets.

Sandisk released a set of high-endurance solid-state drives SSDs designed for network-attached storage NAS environments. According to the memory maker, the Sandisk NAS 600 SATA SSD and the NAS 800 NVMe SSD two-punch comes designed for accelerating hybrid plus all-flash NAS systems, as well as supporting high-speed private cloud deployments leveraging NAS. The NAS 600 SATA SSD is available in models from 500 gigabytes GB up to 4 terabytes TB , delivering up to 2,500 terabytes written TBW with its 4TB model, and up to 2.25 million hours mean to failure MTTF to support demanding multi-user workloads. With its 2.5" serial advanced technology attachment SATA form factor, the drive integrates into existing 3.5" NAS drive bays supporting 2.5” SSDs. Sandisk’s NAS 800 meanwhile focuses on non-volatile memory express NVMe , supporting PCIe 5.0 and coming in capacities from 960GB to 7.68TB. The SSD delivers 14 petabytes written PBW with the largest model for caching, storage tiering, or use as primary storage. It also handles 2.3 million read/2 million write input/output operations per second IOPS with random read/write speeds of up to 3.84TB and sequential read/write speeds up to 14,900/13,200 million bytes per second. The SSD was pitched as suiting multiuser collaborative environments, databases, virtualization, content creation, and agentic AI use. Sandisk joins the likes of StorOne https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/storone-debuts-software-defined-means-to-beat-the-flash-memory-crunch/ and others in pitching advanced flash-based wares as AI compute massively increases the amount of data needing to be stored, organized and rapidly supplied back to workloads. "The way users employ NAS has fundamentally changed," said Anil Moolchandani, vice president, product management at Sandisk. "Today's prosumers, creative professionals, and small businesses are managing larger datasets, collaborating across teams, and relying on systems that need to perform around the clock. We built the Sandisk NAS portfolio to meet those evolving demands, giving users SSDs that make it easy to modernize existing NAS environments or unlock the performance of all-flash deployments."