1000TB SSD? In 2030 it will be normal!

Do you still remember the times when you considered 1 GB (Giga) an obscene amount of memory? Well, nowadays, extracting a single file of this type is completely trite, as it only takes a few seconds, thanks in large part to the speed of the Internet that we have.

In fact, to be honest, in these days when 4K is becoming more and more the norm, even 1TB (Tera) seems small, despite the fact that it is still the standard for the vast majority of new laptops hitting the shelves.

Well, in the next 7-8 years everything will change, and good. All thanks to the efforts of SK Hynix, Micron and, of course, Samsung in the field of storage.

1000TB SSD? In 2030 it will be normal!

So Samsung has unveiled its plans for the future of SSDs, and let’s be honest, they look absolutely amazing! After all, the South Korean giant plans to release V-NAND chips with 1000 layers stacked on top of each other. Do you know what it means? It’s simple, plentiful and good storage!

To give you an idea of ​​the current state of affairs, let’s say that SK Hynix and Micron reign supreme in the storage market with their latest developments, which introduced V-NAND chips with 238 and 232 layers. Something that will open the door to new ultra-fast SSDs now based on the PCIe 5.0 standard. (In case you didn’t know, there will be SSDs on the shelves soon, capable of offering speeds of around 14 GB/s).

But more specifically, what this all means is that we can already introduce SSDs with an incredible 1PB capacity. Yes, you read that right, Petabyte!

Obviously, this type of drive will be more attractive for servers and the like, but even from a consumption standpoint, we will start to see an incredible increase in storage capacity. With this, the cost per gigabyte is reduced even more, and it is completely normal, even corny, to see “basic” smartphones with 512 GB or 1 TB of available space.

By the way, Samsung itself is now ready to release 1TB TLC V-NAND chips in 2022, the first 2TB chips will appear in 2024, and so on… That is, let’s say hello to 4TB chips in 2026, 8TB in 2028 year and finally 16 TB. in 2030.