Fixstars Launches SSD-13000M, the World’s Largest 13TB SSD

Fixstars Launches SSD-13000M, the World’s Largest 13TB SSD for Applications such as Object Storage and Streaming Content Distribution

anuary 13, 2016 – Irvine, CA – Fixstars Corporation (HQ: Tokyo, CEO: Satoshi Miki, Hereafter: Fixstars) has officially launched two new products: the 10TB Fixstars SSD-10000M, and the Fixstars SSD-13000M, which stands as the world’s largest SSD^*1 (13TB^*2 of capacity). Starting January 13^th, 2016, Fixstars will be accepting orders which are expected to ship to US customers late February.

The SSD-13000M and SSD-10000M are equipped with Fixstars proprietary SSD controller, which enables the fast, sustainable I/O performance (read speeds of up to 540 MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 520 MB/s) throughout the lifetime of the SSD. The combination of such high performance and enterprise-grade reliability is proven to be highly sought after in applications such as object storage, streaming content distribution, CG/VFX productions, 4K/8K video processing and various other use cases in which steady sequential access is critical.

Satoshi Miki, CEO of Fixstars Corporation, gave the following comments,

“Continuing the development of the world’s highest capacity SSD product line, we are pleased to take capacity one step further and present the SSD-13000M. The Fixstars SSD series has been highly regarded for their distinct reliability on steady read/write performance that lasts over time. Having met user expectations for higher capacities, Fixstars will continue to innovate and provide unique storage solutions to it’s customers in Japan and in the U.S.”

For more information, please visit https://www.fixstars.com/en/ssd/

*1 Based on the shipping models of 2.5 inch, 15mm SSDs as of January 12^th, 2016

*2 1TB＝1,000,000,000,000 Bytes. The actual user space will be smaller.

*3 Based on the shipping models of 2.5 inch, 9.5mm SSDs as of May 7^th, 2015