The Flash Memory Summit is taking place in California, where Samsung is showcasing its most recent products, introducing ground-breaking technology, and talking about some amazing developments. The firm will share its outlook on memory’s future and highlight its most recent solutions at the largest memory conference in the business. Samsung has hinted at the arrival of a 256-TB SSD. A 256 TB SSD refers to a solid-state drive (SSD) with a storage capacity of 256 terabytes. This is the first ever TB SSD product to be launched.
The 3D QLC NAND memory used in Samsung’s 256 TB SSD likely makes use of creative packaging to jam several 3D QLC NAND chips into stacks, which uses around seven times less energy than stacking eight 32TB SSDs. The unit is still primarily focused on hyperscalers, so it can be expected that Samsung will sell them in either the NGSFF form factor or any of the upcoming ESDFF form factors, as the form factor that the drive will use is kept a secret. The only information revealed by the firm is that its 256 TB SSD is significantly more energy-efficient than competing SSDs that hold 32 TB of raw NAND.
Another surprising fact for users is that the firm introduced the PM9D3a SSD. In order to fulfill consumer demand, Samsung has finished developing the PM9D3a, a high-capacity 2.5-inch standard product, and expects to launch a number of form factors and lineups in the first half of 2024 in capacities ranging from 3.84TB to 30.72TB. These include items with a capacity of 3.84TB or less and going up to 30.72TB. With an 8-channel 2 controller that supports PCIe 5.01, the PM9D3a offers up to 2.3 times faster sequential read and random write performance than the PM9A3 of a previous generation, with added Telemetry and Debug functions.
