Huawei cooks own PCIe SSD: Flash IP in a flash

Chinese enterprise data centre IT supplier Huawei now makes its own PCIe flash cards, including the controller functionality. Being shown round an enterprise product exhibition hall in Huawei's Shenzhen campus* we saw a PCIe flash card, the ES3000 v2, with a capacity of up to 3.2TB, and we were able to pick it up and look at …

[Anonymous Coward]

Micron flash?

Are we sure they didn't just clone the Micron chips and forget to remove the logo?

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Micron flash?

There are only a well known number of flash fabs WW. Doesn't make economic sense for Huawei to have one. NAND supply is commodity. Does Apple have its own Fabs? They ship a lot of flash.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Micron flash?

You sir, thanks for the snarky comment. It can only makes folks at Huawei work even harder.

[Anonymous Coward]

Footnote

" Huawei's Shenzhen campus* "

Where's the corresponding footnote for this?

[BleedinObvious]

Gratuitous product placement

" By using an iPhone to take a picture and then zooming in on it "

[Tom 64]

55W

Whaaaat? I mean Watttt ?

Thats a lot of power for 3.2Gb of storage on the top end card.

And is it just me or do those capacitors look like they are from the '90s and might explode

[Alan Brown]

Re: 55W

"Thats a lot of power for 3.2Gb of storage on the top end card."

At the access speeds we're talking about, no it's not. The micron cards Trevor just reviewed have comparable power draw at full song.

If you're not thrashing the crap out of them then they'll draw a hell of a lot less power.