Hmmmm...
Travel IT biz reportedly testing 100TB SSDs, which could mean – ...
a sudden global shortage of chips?
Global travel systems business Amadeus is testing 100TB SSDs. Paul Hubert, from the CTO office in Amadeus, revealed the news at a Micron SolidScale launch event in London yesterday. He did not say Amadeus was evaluating Micron's SoldScale all-flash NVMe array, but presented a set of flash system requirements that matched …
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Aside from the dodgy maths in the article. You can get 48 x 2.5" NVMe in 2U. 52U racks = 24 per rack (allowing some space for fabric kit)
= 4.8PB per 2U
= 115.2PB per rack
So still some way off of an exabyte.
That's based on off the shelf kit. I'd wager someone would make a 2.5" top loading that could hold more like 192 in 3U (assuming they could cool it). That'd be 326.4PB/rack.
Pure's FlashBlade doesn't use SSDs, it uses raw flash on their own storage blades, with their own code to talk to the flash chips.
Pure's new all-NVMe FlashArray //X also doesn't use SSDs, they've created their own "flash modules" which again is just the raw flash chips with their own intelligent code talking directly to the flash.
SSDs are soooo last year :-)