Shenzhen-based storage giant Longsys has gone all out to offer a wide range of storage solutions for a world that increasingly relies on AI.
The company behind Lexar and FORESEE offers several interesting solutions, including a custom chip that enables on-the-fly compression on existing SSDs, proprietary caching technology, and fast, DRAM-free SSDs in the smaller M2 2230 form factor.
Longsys’ new mSSD builds on the success of its predecessor, delivering PCIe 5.0 speeds and twice the capacity while retaining the same form factor that made its predecessor a breakthrough when it launched last year.
A powerful, high-capacity option despite its size
The Longsys mSSD is, just like the previous model, a DRAM-less SSD, although the new Maxio 1802 controller allows read/write speeds of 11 GB/s and 10 GB/s, respectively.
The SSD, which was also demonstrated at Computex 2026, where Longsys demonstrated how its proprietary VC phase-change liquid cooling, combined with a multi-layer stacked thermal architecture, allowed it to deliver sustained performance compared to most of its non-DRAM competitors in the same form factor.
With 8TB of storage, it’s aimed at most AI companies and power users looking to store or cache LLMs locally without facing the performance limitations of cheaper, larger SSDs.
The form factor and relatively large capacity offered are due to the way the SSD is designed; Longsys says the mSSD is manufactured using advanced wafer-level SiP system-in-package technology with a single chip housing the NAND flash, controller and PMIC that allows it to maintain a compact 2230 form factor without sacrificing performance or reliability.
Longsys’ plans for SSD are also clear, focusing on sustainable performance gains when running “intense KV cache-based AI workloads.” Given that 8TB SSDs of similar performance can currently cost over $2,000 on Amazon, it’s safe to assume that the mSSD, at least at the highest capacity level, easily costs more than most modern consumers, even if it’s not marketed as an enterprise SSD.
At a time when NAND shortages continue to shatter the market, one can easily assume a four-figure asking price for what is essentially a cutting-edge storage option, at least in its form factor, and that’s a sign of things to come, even though Longsys has yet to announce a price or release date for its offering as of this writing.
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