In addition to announcing the 256TB drives, Samsung also unveiled the PBSSD architecture, a petabyte-scale ultra-high capacity solution that it claims “provides scalability through capacity variation depending.
What just happened? At the Flash Memory Summit (FMS) 2023, Samsung’s semiconductor division announced that it has created a 256TB SSD that the company claims consumes up to seven times less power than a stack of eight 32TB SSDs connected together. The SSD is QLC-based and according to Samsung, comes with an “unprecedented level of integration density.” The new drives will be aimed at hyper-scale data centers and enterprises.
In addition to announcing the 256TB drives, Samsung also unveiled the PBSSD architecture, a petabyte-scale ultra-high capacity solution that it claims “provides scalability through capacity variation depending on the application.” Along with its partner Meta, Samsung also demonstrated a technology called Flexible Data Placement (FDP), which has been ratified in NVMe and is a way of optimizing data placement to improve predictability and overall performance, while minimizing TCO.
