High-Capacity SSDs Positioned To Tackle AI Onslaught
Search Storage, Monday, October 6th, 2025
More AI means more data, and organizations need a way to accommodate it all. For that, flash vendors are looking to high-capacity SSDs as a critical layer in the storage hierarchy.
Everything about today's AI is big, particularly the SSDs that contain the data used for training it.
In 2024, leading NAND flash vendors -- including Kioxia, Micron Technology, Samsung, SK Hynix and Western Digital Corp. (WDC), now operating as SanDisk -- were all telling their investors that they were sampling very large, 100-terabyte SSDs to their hyperscale data center customers. But what is driving the need for such gigantic SSDs?