India, Aug. 7 -- While it's not exactly an apples-to-apples comparison, the iPhone 16 Pro tops out at 1TB of storage, whereas Sandisk's latest NVMe SSD offers a whopping 256TB. Yes, 256 terabytes, not gigabytes. You read that right.

This has now been demonstrated in a new NVMe enterprise-grade SSD by Sandisk and made possible by the company's enterprise-grade UltraQLC platform, which has further been made possible using a combination of BiC S8 QLC CBA NAND with custom controllers and advanced system optimisations.

Sandisk says that in the AI era, flash storage must become more customisable to match complex workloads, and this is where this new SSD comes into play.

It has primarily been designed for AI-driven work, data-intensive worklo...