This announcement makes DapuStor the eighth vendor to reveal an SSD at or around the 245TB mark.

AI workloads are driving demand for much larger SSDs inside hyperscale data centers, and in response to this, DapuStor has announced a PCIe Gen5 QLC SSD which scales to 245TB.

122TB versions of the drive are already in use by customers, as the high capacity SSD is intended for AI data lakes, vector databases, and large storage pools where data stays online and is accessed frequently.

These workloads generate large volumes of embeddings, logs, and video during AI training and inference. That data is accessed repeatedly rather than archived, so dense flash storage is a better choice than mechanical drives.