M+ CAPACITY

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INCREASE STORAGE WITHOUT INCREASING SYSTEM VOLUME

High-resolution sensors, ISR payloads, mission recording, Edge AI, and onboard analytics continue to drive storage requirements upward.

MEMKOR high-density SSD architectures allow capacity to be increased within existing 2.5", U.2, M.2, XMC, VPX, and external storage envelopes.

Current MEMKOR platforms support high-capacity configurations such as:

• Up to 16TB in U.2 / 2.5"
• Up to 8TB M.2 2280
• Up to 8TB XMC
• Up to 32TB in 3U VPX

*Maximum capacity varies by NAND technology, temperature range, form factor, and configuration.

The real value is not simply fitting more NAND into the enclosure. It is increasing storage density while preserving the environmental, performance, and lifecycle requirements of the qualified system.

MORE TERABYTES CHANGE MORE THAN JUST THE BOM

Increasing capacity affects the entire storage architecture.

• Write Endurance
  More NAND can distribute writes across a larger flash pool, potentially increasing usable mission life.
• Power + Thermal
  Higher-density and higher-performance configurations can increase controller and NAND activity, affecting system power and cooling requirements.
• Performance
  Interface selection, NAND architecture, workload, and thermal conditions determine whether capacity can be accessed at the required sustained data rate.
• SWaP
  The right architecture can increase storage without consuming additional VPX slots, enclosure volume, or cabling.

THE SMALLEST DRIVE THAT MEETS THE CAPACITY REQUIREMENT ISN'T ALWAYS THE BEST DRIVE FOR THE APPLICATION

CAPTURE MORE. RETAIN IT LONGER.

High-rate data recorders may need to capture multiple sensor streams continuously while preserving large volumes of mission data for later analysis.

For these applications, capacity must be evaluated together with:

Sustained Data Rate | Number of Streams | Retention Time | Write Endurance | WAF | Redundancy

A simple planning relationship is useful:

DATA RATE * RETENTION TIME = BASE STORAGE REQUIREMENT

Then account for redundancy, over-provisioning, filesystem overhead, endurance margin, and expected growth.

MEMKOR can help size the storage around the actual mission workload rather than simply selecting the largest available SSD.

SCALE CAPACITY WITHOUT LOSING CONTROL

Large storage systems may use multiple SSDs in RAID or distributed architectures to increase capacity, performance, or redundancy.

MEMKOR has worked with Broadcom to support interoperability with MegaRAID SafeStore for secure multi-SED deployments, helping simplify security management in systems using multiple encrypted drives.

RAID | Multiple SEDs | TCG Enterprise | Centralized Management | High-Capacity Arrays

DENSITY DOESN'T REMOVE THE ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENT

Commercial high-capacity SSDs are often optimized around data-center or enterprise operating conditions.

MEMKOR high-capacity storage can be configured for industrial-temperature operation, ruggedization, security, locked BOM, and long-term support across deployed Defense and Aerospace environments.

I-Temp | Ruggedization | AES-256-XTS | TCG Opal 2.0 | Locked BOM | Obsolescence Management