Sandisk today demonstrated a high-capacity 256 TB NVMe enterprise SSD, a breakthrough in storage capacity, performance and power efficiency, made possible by Sandisk's new enterprise-grade UltraQLC platform. Offering extraordinary capacity, the UltraQLC platform marks a significant achievement in NAND architecture, built with a combination of BiCS8 QLC CBA NAND, custom controllers and advanced system optimizations

As workloads and business requirements evolve in the AI era, flash storage must become more customizable to match complex workloads. The new SANDISK 256TB1 NVMe SSD, built on the UltraQLC platform, is designed for AI-driven, data-intensive workloads like data ingest, preparation, and fast AI data lakes with high-performance speeds and power efficiency, while improving TCO for high-capacity applications in hyperscale cloud.