Technology advances extremely quickly, but in terms of storage, we have been seeing for a few years that SSDs are the most futuristic type of units that currently exist, having taken away a large part of the importance of HDDs. Although hard drives are still useful as they offer greater amounts of size than solid state drives, this could change after the presentation you have made SK Hynixsince they want to create a SSD of 300TB.
Every day we see how technologies are presented that seek to change the world, and storage systems are no exception. Taking into account that it is increasingly complicated to store the large amounts of data that are generated, it is not strange to see how many companies seek innovate in this sector. Not long ago we saw how certain companies were developing technology to offer hard drives that exceeded the 30 TB barrier, but now, SK Hynix wants to offer ten times more storage in a SSD.
A 300 TB solid state drive, for what?
One of the big problems that companies are currently having is how to store the millions of data that are generated daily, something that, due to the evolution of AI in recent years, is increasingly becoming a problem. a more serious problem. The space consumption of artificial intelligence is something that has many companies in check, since within six years it is expected that these systems will generate an amount of data that will exceed 660 zettabytes, an extremely high amount considering Keep in mind that until 2014, humanity had generated an amount of 15 zettabytes of data.
Obviously, all this data has to be stored in a physical place, and this is where data processing centers or server farms come into play, places where we can find large amounts of information. But the capacity of the disks that these computers incorporate is limited, like everything else, so it is necessary to develop as soon as possible a technology that allows increasing the storage capacity much more than what high-end storage units are capable of offering. commercial currently.
It is because of that SK Hynix A project has begun to solve this problem, and they have proposed creating units SSD capable of achieving the 300TB storage, although at the moment, unfortunately, we do not have too many details, beyond the official announcement they made during CXL DevCon 2024 declaring that they have started working on it.
When will this technology arrive?
A few months ago we saw how 300 TB of SSD could become a reality in 2026, something that is not so far-fetched after seeing the official announcement that SK Hynix has made about the progress they are making in this technology. Even so, obviously we do not really know when this technology will be launched, but what we are clear about is that it will surely arrive before 2030 taking into account that with each passing year, storage needs will be much greater due to the use of artificial intelligence. .
