NGD Systems introduces 16-TB Catalina 2 SSDs powered by ARM cores
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Hard drives and SSDs have always had logic chips. Spinning platters and moving heads in hard drives need some smarts to keep them from smashing together, and SSDs need some brains for encryption, wear leveling, and splitting data streams between several flash dies.
NGD Systems says the multi-core ARM processors embedded in its Catalina-2 U.2 SSDs give the drives a completely different level of computational smarts. AI and machine learning applications can have enormous data sets that might not even fit in terabytes ...