Launched by Micron Technology in May 2026, this world’s highest-capacity commercially available SSD features proprietary 276-layer 3D QLC NAND technology. Designed for AI data centers and hyperscale storage with 245TB per drive, it delivers 84x better energy efficiency than HDDs, redefining rack-scale storage density.
At the Global Storage Innovation Forum in Shenzhen, Samsung stacked the compact 256 TB BM1773 QLC SSD, the PCIe 6.0 PM1763, the industry’s first 400-plus-layer V10 NAND, and the TSV-stacked zNAND-O on one stage. The datacenter hardware is real; the on-device AI promise is still a concept looking for an ecosystem.
As AI training datasets expand exponentially, traditional storage solutions face unprecedented pressure. The capacity density and latency bottlenecks of hard disk drives (HDDs), combined with the per-drive capacity limits of traditional enterprise solid-state drives (SSDs), have become the “Achilles’ heel” constraining AI infrastructure expansion. Against this backdrop, Micron Technology’s 245TB 6600 ION SSD, launched in May … Read more
