On Wed, 4 Jun 2025 20:55:39 -0500, Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
wrote:

“Petabyte-Class E2 SSDs Poised to Disrupt Warm Data Storage”
https://www.storagereview.com/news/e2-ssd-form-factor?mc_cid=4168d1ce08

“Once reserved primarily for archival use, large-scale data lakes are
now asked to support increasingly active workloads. New AI applications, >analytics pipelines, and emerging digital services are driving up the >“temperature” of previously considered cold data. The result is a
growing middle ground, where data is accessed too frequently for HDDs to >handle efficiently, but not hot enough to warrant the cost of
performance SSDs. E2 is a new flash form factor to address this emerging >“warm” storage tier. It is designed to bridge the gap between
high-capacity hard drives and traditional enterprise SSDs, offering a
more practical balance of performance, density, and cost.”

A freaking petabyte hard drive in SSD format !

The E2 form factor is new to me. I don't have anything that can use it,
but then this much storage isn't really targeted to consumers anyway. At
this point, I'd be more interested in picking up a pair of something
much smaller and much less expensive, like 100TB or so, only 10% of this
beast.

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