Samsung Forecasts Petabyte SSD In A Decade
Blocks&Files, March 30th, 2023
Think a 128TB SSD is a big brother of a device? How about a petabyte SSD? Samsung sees it coming in the not-too-distant future.
The 2023 China Flash Memory Market Summit (CFMS2023) took place in Shenzhen this month and saw Samsung, Solidigm, Micron and many other NAND flash vendors present their wares to Chinese buyers. Local media outlet A&S Mag summarised the many vendor sessions.
The standout pitch came from Samsung VP Kyung Ryun Kim, NAND Product Planning Group GM, who said the company expects single SSD capacity to be as high as 1PB in the next 10 years. Samsung exhibited a prototype 128TB SSD at last year's August Flash memory Summit in San Jose, calling it a petabyte 'scale' SSD. This used QLC (4 bits/cell) NAND, supported zoned name spaces and came with a PCIe/NVMe interface.