What if you could talk to your hard drive?

I got stuck on that question while looking at AI + storage—not hype decks, but controllers, memory limits, and who’s shipping “smart” drives for real.

Over the last ~3 months I pieced together a landscape note (KIOXIA / BiCS / XL-FLASH / AiSAQ as a spine, then competition, feasibility, market). It lives in a single GitHub README with charts, mermaid diagrams, and a full source list so the argument is checkable. Please feel free to disrupt, contribute more relevant sources or suggest an alternative approach.

I am actively building this, and will share the results open source as well <3

Repo with the full analysis and reasoning:
https://github.com/rosspeili/computational_storage_landscape

Basically, the idea is: You talk to your SSD like you would talk to any chatbot. It uses vector search and embeddings to answer questions and showcase relevant files, instead of eating dram to show only exact matches to search term.