Flash Memory Summit Keynotes Outline The Future Of Solid State Storage

The 2016 Flash Memory Summit brought about the introduction of several new products and initiatives by the flash memory industry during keynote talks from #Seagate, #Samsung, #Toshiba and #WesternDigital and 10 other companies. These included flash for archiving, very large #SSD s, new flash memory architectures, #NVMe and NVMe fabrics and emerging non-volatile memory technologies. Vijay Rao from #Facebook was the kick-off keynote at the 2016 FMS looked at their initiatives to create hyperscale storage including their AVA high density flash initiative using M.2 flash memory SSDs for a very dense storage rack storage architecture. Jason Taylor from Facebook in a 2013 FMS keynote advocated flash for archiving. Vijay built upon this idea by talking about WORM data written on QLC (4 bit per cell) #3DNAND flash with a proposal for 100 TB SSD with low endurance (150 write cycl

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