Friday, March 3rd 2023
300 TB SSDs Could Arrive as Soon as 2026, Claims Pure Storage
Pure Storage, a maker of various storage solutions and custom enterprise-grade SSDs, claims the company will produce SSDs with up to 300 TBs of capacity by 2026. In an interview with Pure Storage CTO Alex McMullan, Blocks & Files got exclusive information that the company targets SSD capacities of up to 300 TBs in 2026. Pure Storage creates proprietary Direct Flash Modules (DFM) SSDs which use 3D NAND chips controlled by a custom SSD controller, are used in the FlashArray systems, and run on a custom FlashBlade operating system. This level of customization allows Pure Storage to create SSD drives with remarkable capacities in the future as the 3D NAND technology advances.
In the coming years, 3D NAND flash manufacturers will switch from the current 200-layer chips to the 400/500-layer chips, driving storage density to new highs. As manufacturers update their technology, so does Pure with its DFM cards that use regular U.2 NVMe connectors in a custom ruler-style format made explicitly for Pure FlashArray systems. Compared to upcoming HDDs that Toshiba and Seagate will use, Pure Storage DFM SSDs will have much higher capacities and read/write speeds, especially as higher-density 3D NAND arrives. You can see the comparison of Pure's estimates for the future 300 TB SSDs with future HDD technology.
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Blocks and Files
In the coming years, 3D NAND flash manufacturers will switch from the current 200-layer chips to the 400/500-layer chips, driving storage density to new highs. As manufacturers update their technology, so does Pure with its DFM cards that use regular U.2 NVMe connectors in a custom ruler-style format made explicitly for Pure FlashArray systems. Compared to upcoming HDDs that Toshiba and Seagate will use, Pure Storage DFM SSDs will have much higher capacities and read/write speeds, especially as higher-density 3D NAND arrives. You can see the comparison of Pure's estimates for the future 300 TB SSDs with future HDD technology.
33 Comments on 300 TB SSDs Could Arrive as Soon as 2026, Claims Pure Storage
Samsung 870 QVO 1 TB review: Terrible, Do Not Buy
And it’s a fair assessment, drive that falls to 80 MB/s after the cache is filled is terrible. But three years later nobody else challenged this drive - because SATA drives are out of fashion now, and you can’t cram 8 TB cheaply in M.2. And it doesn’t seem it’s going to improve, even though some 2TB M.2 drives have fallen to below $100 mark…
Really that the price is so high is a big disappointment.
I hope this breakthrough is achieved, SSDs at the consumer segment have stagnated in capacity, and affordable devices have also stagnated at performance, which while very high, has room to greatly improve.
The mechanical HDD is a technology which should be riding into the sunset at the earliest convenience, IMHO.
I think unless we get a bump, the 8tb for the price you want is a next year thing.
I've bought drives for the same price (350ish aud) for the last 2 upgrades and gotten 4x the space of the last model about every 3 years.