The SNIA Solid State Storage Special Interest Group (SIG) recently updated the Solid State Drive Form Factor page to provide detailed information on dimensions; mechanical, electrical, and connector specifications; and protocols. On our August 4, 2020 SNIA webcast, we will take a detailed look at one of these form factors – Enterprise and Data Center SSD Form Factor (EDSFF) – challenging an expert panel to consider if we are at the end of the 2.5-in disk era.
Enterprise and Data Center Form Factor (EFSFF) is designed natively for data center NVMe SSDs to improve thermal, power, performance, and capacity scaling. EDSFF has different variants for flexible and scalable performance, dense storage configurations, general purpose servers, and improved data center TCO. At the 2020 Open Compute Virtual Summit, OEMs, cloud service providers, hyperscale data center, and SSD vendors showcased products and their vision for how this new family of SSD form factors solves real data challenges.
During the webcast, our SNIA experts from companies that have been involved in EDSFF since the beginning will discuss how they will use the EDSFF form factor:
- Hyperscale data center and cloud service provider panelists Facebook and Microsoft will discuss how E1.S (SNIA specification SFF-TA-1006) helps solve performance scalability, serviceability, capacity, and thermal challenges for future NVMe SSDs and persistent memory in 1U servers.
- Server and storage system panelists Dell, HPE, Kioxia, and Lenovo will discuss their goals for the E3 family and the new updated version of the E3 specification (SNIA specification SFF-TA-1008)
We hope you can join us as we spend some time on this important topic. Register here to save your spot.