More than doubling the capacity of the currently available high-capacity SSD from Samsung, the Samsung PM1663a, the new prototype features standard 2.5-inch 12mm form-factor, making it smaller than the earlier unveiled Seagate 60TB prototype.

This is also the first SSD from Samsung that uses the 4th generation, 64-layer 3D V-NAND flash memory and uses SAS 12Gbps interface.

According to Ryan Smith, senior SSD and storage product manager at Samsung, the technology behind the 32TB SSD will deliver higher sequential read and write performance than its predecessors and should be both faster and more reliable than the 15.36TB PM1663a, but the precise performance details were left for some other day.

According to the report from PCWorld.com, Samsung also announced the Z-SSD, a NAND flash-based product designed to be used cache or temporary storage in data centers, fitting somewhere between an SSD and DRAM, by offering performance similar to DRAM. Samsung is also working on a new SSD form-factor which will be a larger version of M.2, providing more room for storage, accelerator chips and power control circuits.

During Flash Memory Summit 2016, Samsung also noted that it wants to put 100TB of storage into SSDs by 2020. Hopefully, we will see some of those new products later this year.