Next-gen E2 SSDs pack 1 petabyte of storage, enough for 11,000 4K movies in a ruler-sized drive

Something to look forward to: A revolutionary new SSD form factor could soon redefine high-density storage in data centers by narrowing the capacity gap between mechanical hard drives and solid-state drives. Known as E2, this QLC flash-based drive is reportedly capable of storing up to 1 petabyte (1 million gigabytes) of data while delivering performance comparable to that of a high-end SSD. The next-generation drive is being jointly developed by the Storage Networking Industry Association and the Open Compute Project to store so-called "warm" data – information accessed less frequently than hot data, but still requiring faster read/write speeds than traditional high-capacity mechanical storage solutions typically provide. Examples of warm data include application data, logs, analytics, and backups. While these data types were previously classified as "cold," the demands of new AI applications, analytics pipelines, and other emerging digital services have increased access frequency, ... Read full article.