Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. launched the highest capacity Next-generation Small Form Factor (NGSFF), an 8TB NF1 SSD. Designed for the data center, the new 8TB NF1 SSD is optimized for data-intensive analytics and virtualization applications. The company goes on to state that customers can put up to 72 NF1 drives in a 2U space and with 8TB can hit density of 576TB.
In order to hit the 8TB mark in a 11cm x 3.05cm footprint, Samsung built the new SSDs with 16 of its 512GB NAND packages, each of which was stacked in 16 layers of 256Gb 3-bit V-NAND chips.
