Shenzhen-based storage giant Longsys has gone all out to offer a wide range of storage solutions to a world increasingly dependent on artificial intelligence.
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’ new mSSD builds on the success of its predecessor, offering PCIe 5.0 speeds and twice the capacity, while maintaining the same form factor that made its predecessor a breakthrough when it launched last year.
A powerful option with high capacity despite its size
The Longsys mSSD is, like the previous model, a DRAM-less SSD, although 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 its proprietary VC phase-change liquid cooling, paired with a multi-layer stacked thermal architecture, allowed it to deliver sustained performance compared to most of its DRAM-less competition in the same form factor.
With 8 TB of storage, it caters to most AI companies and power users who want to store or cache LLMs locally without struggling with the performance limitations of cheaper, larger SSDs.
The form factor and relatively large capacity offered is due to how the SSD is designed; Longsys states that the mSSD is manufactured using an advanced wafer-level SiP system-in-package technology with a single die package NAND flash, controller and PMIC that allows it to maintain a compact 2230 form factor without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Longsys’ plans for the SSD are also clear, focusing on sustained performance gains when running “intense KV Cache-powered AI workloads.” Considering how similarly performing 8TB SSDs can cost upwards of $2,000 on Amazon right now, it’s safe to assume that the mSSD, at least at the highest capacity level, will easily price out most modern consumers, even if it’s not marketed as an enterprise SSD.
At a time when NAND shortages continue to wreak havoc on the market, it’s easy to assume a four-digit asking price for what is essentially a high-end storage option, at least in its form factor, and that’s a sign of things to come, though Longsys has yet to announce a price or a release date for its offering at the time of writing.
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