E2 SSDs are poised to redefine high-capacity storage with up to 1PB per drive—bridging the gap between HDDs and high-performance flash. Once reserved primarily for archival use, large-scale data lakes are now asked to support increasingly active workloads. New AI applications, analytics pipelines, and emerging digital services are driving up the “temperature” of previously considered cold data. The result is a growing middle ground, where data is accessed too frequently for HDDs to handle effici...