Review Calls Silicon Motion’s Montitan SSD “A masterpiece from Enterprise Storage Design”, but is it too little, too late?
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The Montitan SSD platform from Silicon Motion finally gets a complete performance of performance after years of previews of the stock markets, and although the results impress paper, the question is whether it is too late to matter.
A review of Tweak Claims that the 7.68 TB Montitan SSD is “a masterpiece of Enterprise Storage Design”, powered by SM8366 PCIE Gen5 controller of Silicon Motion and built to compete in the highest levels of data center performance.
The Montitan platform focuses on both TLC and QLC configurations and is optimized for AI, Edge Computing and HPC environments.
Delivers more than most
With support for NVME 2.0B, OCP Data Center specifications and multiple standard form factors, 7.68 TB Montitan SSD focuses on modern, demanding workload. The rated unit, a U.2 FORM FACTOR TLC-based SSD, supports 3.4 million IOPs and successive speeds of up to 14.2 GB/s.
It also has tight latency control, low stationary power (under 5W) and a 1 DWPD endurance with which the Drive can be rewritten almost 2000 times during its lifetime.
The SM8366 controller itself is the cornerstone of the platform and offers advanced functions such as Performshape, a firmware-based algorithm for shaping performance by the requirements of the user defined Quality of Service (QOS).
In combination with insulation at hardware level, this design is aimed at supplying consistent, application-adjusted transit between workloads.
Summarizing, Tweak zei: “We houden van wat siliciumbeweging heeft ontwikkeld in zijn SM8366 -controller zoals geleverd door zijn Montitan -platform. Ons proefpersoon heeft duidelijk aangetoond dat het meer kan leveren dan de meeste van zijn concurrenten. We waarderen vooral zijn strakke, consistente en voorspelbare IO -levering samen met zijn vermogen om het meest te domineren, zo niet alle, van alle mensen in de klasse of zelfs hierboven bij lage queue Depths. ”
Despite the technical strengths, the position of Silicon Motion is more complicated. It, such as Phison and other suppliers of Controller, now competes against former partners.
Nand -makers like Samsung And SK Hynix are vertically integrated, build their own controllers and love the value chain in -house. In that landscape, offering a platform, no matter how capable, is a much more difficult sale.
With AI -Workloads who now push the queue depths that were typical much further than a few years ago, the quality of the controller is more important than ever. But with full commercialization of platforms such as Montitan in the coming years after the AI infrastructure race started, silicon movement can simply be too late to eliminate a meaningful space against deep -rooted competitors.
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