- SK Hynix Showcases 245TB PS1101 Gen5 SSD for AI and Cloud Workloads
- The PS1101 was shown alongside smaller Gen5 SSDs and client SSDs.
- High-capacity PCIe Gen5 SSDs are coming as storage makers prepare larger models for 2026
Enterprise SSD capacity continues to grow as manufacturers push storage densities to new limits.
In 2024, we saw several 123TB models from Solidigm, Phison, WD and Samsungand this year already announced 245 TB PCIe Gen5 SSDs from Kioxia and Huawei, as well as an even larger model from Sandisk.
Kioxia has expanded its LC9 series Huawei introduced a line of corporate solid-state drives with a capacity of 245 TB OceanDisk LC560Bye Sandisk unveils 256 TB SSD using the new UltraQLC flash memory.
SK Hynix demonstrates PS1101
Other storage system manufacturers, including SolidigmaSamsung and Micron are expected to introduce 245 TB models in 2026, and Samsung is also preparing a 512TB PCIe Gen6 SSD. for 2027.
SK Hynix has now joined the high-capacity SSD arena with the PS1101, a 245TB PCIe Gen5 enterprise drive that the company unveiled at Dell Technology forum in Seoul.
Like other high-capacity drives, it's designed for data centers that handle large AI workloads, not desktop PCs.
PS1101 uses QLC NAND and PCIe Gen5 interface to provide high data transfer speeds while maintaining low power consumption and space requirements.
The drive is made in the E3.L form factor and was modestly marked “Best in the World” on the company’s showcase.
It will be targeted at large-scale AI servers and cloud environments where rack capacity and thermal efficiency are critical.
The drive was unveiled alongside other fifth-generation SSDs including the PS1010, PS1012, and PEB110.
The 61TB PS1012 delivers twice the throughput of comparable Gen4 SSDs, while the PEB110 E1.S supports capacities from 2TB to 8TB using TLC NAND.
SK Hynix also introduced the PCB01 client SSD with 14GB/s sequential read speed and 12GB/s write speed for on-device AI and high-performance computing.
Also unveiled was the compact PVC10 M.2 2230 model, designed for low-power systems, as well as SK Hynix's next-generation DRAM and HBM products, including HBM4 memory running at 2TB per second.
With the launch of the PS1101, SK Hynix joins a growing group of storage manufacturers offering ultra-dense enterprise SSDs. The Korean memory giant hasn't announced a production timeline, but it should be early 2026.
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