Seagate on Monday unveiled its newest enterprise class PCIe solid state drives. Seagate claims that it is the fastest SSD in the market and will be released later this summer.

Seagate is planning to flaunt the new SSDs at the Open Compute Project Summit. The company is yet to release the official specs list of its newest SSD, but rumors has it that it has an immensely fast transfer speed.

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Seagate claims that the newest PCIe x16 unit can churn out a 10GB/second throughput. On the other hand, the PCIe x8 has a throughput of 6.7GB/second. While some tech experts believe that this speed refers to the SSD's sequential performance, the tech community agrees that it is still an impressive figure.

According to TechSpot, the Seagate SSDs that uses the PCIe x8 lane, which is fastest eight-lane SSD on the market.

The new SSDs will be marketed under the NVMe banner. The biggest question now is what controller are used for these drives. As of this writing, most NVMe SSD controllers support up to 4 PCIe lanes, except the PMC-Sierra which supports 8-lane controllers.

According to AnandTech, Seagate has an internal development team with SandForce. On the other hand, tech experts are a bit skeptical whether the team can create a large controller as soon as possible. Moreover, some experts believe that the new Seagate SSDs are not based on third-party controllers.

Seagate said that the new SSDs are specifically designed for enterprise applications that demand blazing fast storage. These applications include real-time data processing, statistical analysis, weather modelling and high-speed cloud infrastructure.

A rendering provided by Seagate shows four M.2 SSDs connected into a single PCIe x16 expansion card. Tech analysts believe that by employing this design, Seagate was able to achieve the blazing fast transfer speed it claims. The rendering also reveal a heat sink since most of these drives can get pretty hot during continuous use.

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