Samsung Electronics will have plenty to share during this week’s NVIDIA GTC 2024 conference, and one of its announcements will be for an SSD subscription service, according to reports online. “The subscription service will help reduce initial investment costs in storage infrastructure for our customers and cut down on maintenance expenses,” a rep explained.
Business Korea on how it’ll work:
This business model allows customers to use the service by paying a subscription fee instead of purchasing the ultra-high-capacity SSD solutions outright. Enterprises using the service can flexibly utilize SSD storage without the need to build separate infrastructure, while simultaneously receiving various services from Samsung Electronics related to storage management, security, and upgrades.
Samsung is also reportedly planning to unveil:
- New memory solutions for AI and machine learning
- 12-layer High Bandwidth Memory (HBM) 3E
- PBSSD, a new petabyte-level SSD storage device
Business Korea noted:
A petabyte represents a unit 1,000 times larger than a terabyte (TB); 1 PB can hold approximately 174,000 movies if each is 6 GB in size.