This SIM-card-sized 8TB PCIe 5.0 SSD hits 11GB/s, but AI firms will likely hoard them all — and Longsys's jaw-dropping mSSD also sports VC phase-change liquid cooling

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Shenzhen-based storage giant Longsys has been pulling out all the stops in offering a wide range of storage solutions for a world that increasingly relies on AI.

The company behind Lexar and FORESEE is releasing several interesting solutions, including a custom chip that enables on-the-fly compression on existing SSDs, proprietary caching technology, and fast, DRAM-less SSDs in the smaller M2 2230 form factor.

Longsys's new mSSD builds on the success of its predecessor, offering PCIe 5.0 speeds and twice the maximum capacity while maintaining the same form factor that made its predecessor a breakthrough when it was launched last year.

A powerful, high capacity option despite the size

The Longsys mSSD is, much like the previous model, a DRAM-less SSD, even as the newer Maxio 1802 controller enables read/write speeds of 11GB/s and 10GB/s, respectively.

The SSD, which was also showcased at Computex 2026, where Longsys demonstrated how...

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