Samsung Unveils Petabyte Storage Solutions

During the recent Flash Memory Summit 2022, Samsung unveiled a slew of next-generation memory and storage technologies. The first, called Petabyte Storage, allows a single server unit to offer more than one petabyte or 1,000,00 Gigabytes of storage space.

This will help manufacturers increase their storage capacity within the same space and with a minimum number of servers. This in turn reduces the number servers needed as well as the overall power consumption. Server farms that house cloud data could see a significant reduction in overall running and maintenance costs.

Samsung’s telemetry technology helps gather readable metadata from inside customers’ SSDs such as their NAND, DRAM, SSD controllers and firmware. Using this information, Data centers can detect and prevent potential problems before they happen, which increases overall operational efficacy.

Alongside this revelation, the company also announced the availability of two enterprise SSDs. The PM1743 is the first PCIe SSD while the PM1653 is the first 24G SAS SSD. Samsung’s shift ward SmartSSD and CXL DRAM, which are designed to avoid bottlenecks in the current memory and storage architecture.

Alongside the Petabyte storage solution, Samsung also announced “Memory-semantic DRAM” memory. It uses Compute Express Link (CXL) interconnect technology and a built-in DRAM cache to achieve up to 20x better random read speed and latency for AI and ML applications.

It’s optimized to read and write small-sized data chunks at significantly higher speeds, which Samsung believes is ideal for AI and ML workloads. Artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) require fast processing of smaller data sets.

Lastly, UFS4.0 mobile storage is expected to enter mass production this month. It will be of great benefit to flagship smartphone sht require large amounts of data processing for features like high-resolution images and to cope with graphically intensive mobile games.