Data Storage Shortage: What Options Do You Have? w/ Chris Mellor

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This episode discusses the global SSD shortage and its impact on data infrastructure with storage journalist Chris Mellor.

The global SSD shortage is reshaping data infrastructure, storage planning, and enterprise scale workloads. In this episode of Data Unchained, we talk with storage journalist Chris Mellor of Blocks and Files about the causes behind the NAND supply crisis, the pressure on GPU pipelines, the rise in flash pricing, and the limited fab capacity that will continue into 2027. We explore the future of disk technology, the growth of vector driven data, the increasing demand for high bandwidth memory, and the expanding role of hybrid cloud strategies as organizations struggle to secure fast storage. Chris explains how metadata rich automation, smarter tiering, high bandwidth flash, and new caching approaches can help enterprises navigate shortages, optimize existing resources, and prepare for the next twelve months of accelerated change across the storage and compute ecosystem. Follow Chris on his website: https://www.blocksandfiles.com/ Cyberpunk by jiglr | https://soundcloud.com/jiglrmusic Music promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_US Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for…

People in this episode

Host: Hammerspace

Guest: Chris Mellor

Topics covered

• data storage
• SSD shortage
• enterprise workloads
• disk technology
• hybrid cloud strategies
• metadata automation

Keywords

• SSD shortage
• NAND supply crisis
• flash pricing
• high bandwidth memory
• hybrid cloud
• data infrastructure
• storage planning
• enterprise scale workloads

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Blocks and Files, Acast

Products: SSD, NAND, GPU, flash, high bandwidth memory

Books & works: Cyberpunk

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