Pure Storage Teases Monstrous 300 TB Ultra-Large Capacity NVMe SSD With A Tentative 2026 Launch Date

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Pure Storage, manufacturer of all-flash array (AFA) solid-state drives that base the technology of DirectFlash modules (DFM) announced to the website Blocks & Files that the company is planning to launch the company's first 300 TB NVMe SSD sometime between the years 2025 to 2026. This continues the trend that the storage marketplace sees with the adoption of larger solid-state drives replacing hard disk drives to maintain crucial areas, such as data centers.

Alex McMullan, Chief Technology Officer of Pure Storage, displayed the roadmap the company will take for DFMs and their expansion over the next three years.

The plan for us over the next couple of years is to take our hard drive competitive posture into a whole new space. Today we’re shipping 24 and 48TB drives. You can expect … a number of announcements from us at our Accelerate conference around larger and larger drive sizes with our stated ambition here to have 300TB drive capabilities, by or before 2026.

Reaching 300 TB in an SSD seems quite radical compared to other storage manufacturers. Toshiba's expected roadmap over the following three years sees the company increasing its storage drives' MAS-MAMR and HAMR technology to reach 40 TB of capacity.

Another prominent player in the storage marketplace, Seagate, intends to increase its HAMR technology to advance to 50 TB by 2025. The company will then expect to reach 100 TB by 2030.

For customers … this opens up a whole new suite of capabilities. So we admire the persistence of hard drive vendors, but I don’t realistically think that they have a plan or a strategic goal [that matches this].

All the chip fabs are shipping us somewhere between 112 and 160 layers. All the fab vendors have a plan and a path to get to 400-500