Samsung Electronics announced that it is now shipping the industry’s largest solid state drive (SSD), which has 15-terabyte of storage. The SSD dubbed “PM1633a” comes in a 2.5-inch form factor.

Jung-bae Lee, Senior Vice President, Memory Product Planning and Application Engineering Team, Samsung Electronics, said: “To satisfy an increasing market need for ultra-high-capacity SAS SSDs from leading enterprise storage system manufacturers, we are directing our best efforts toward meeting our customers’ SSD requests. We will continue to lead the industry with next-generation SSDs, using our advanced 3D V-NAND memory technology, in order to accelerate the growth of the premium memory market while delivering greater performance and efficiency to our customers.”

The SSD drive boasts a highly dependable metadata protection mechanism in addition to featuring a data protection and restoration software tool in case of a momentary blackout, which make enterprise systems more stable and manageable.

The Samsung PM1633a SSD line-up is expected to rapidly become the overwhelming favorite over hard disks for enterprise storage systems.