Affordable 31TB SSD to hit market sooner than expected and will compete more aggressively with HDD – Phison’s X100P could be this summer’s surprise hit, but won’t be compatible with your PC
Phison is a name that may be familiar to anyone looking for the best SSDs on the market today, thanks to its quality products. Phison, one of the major players in NAND, counts Micron, Samsung, Western Digital and more as customers.
The company took the stage at Computex 2024 to unveil a range of new products and services, including the X100P, described by the company as an “SSD platform”.
“The new products on display reflect not only our technical strength, but also our proactive response to market demand,” said Phison CEO KS Pua. “We believe these innovative products will deliver significant value and competitive advantages to our customers.”
The X100 is a beast
Lots of Phison announcements are highly technical and are unlikely to affect regular computer users, at least directly.
Among the notable product reveals was a new high-performance DRAM-Less E31T SSD storage solution, building on Phison’s PCIe 5.0 E26 technology, the world’s first mainstream SSD that achieves speeds of up to 10 GB/s. These are aimed at notebook and PC OEMs, the company says.
There’s also a range of new SSDs for data centers, as well as AI workloads and other high-intensity computing. Phison has also released the world’s first native USB 4.0 Single-Chip Controller U21.
When it comes to the X100P, Phison really pulled out all the stops. “Using Phison’s unique and proprietary CPU architecture, X100 is available in up to 30.72 TB at just 21 W. .
For anyone who has tried to build their own gaming PC, or is looking for the best desktop PCs, having a 31TB SSD is frankly mind-boggling. The minimum capacity of the X100 is also a not insignificant 1.6 TB.
Unfortunately for anyone salivating over having such a massive SSD, Phison says the high-performance X-series, boot-drive B-series, data center D-series, and SATA S-series won’t be available to mainstream consumers. .
As if that weren’t enough, Phison also unveiled the APEX Storage