The other day, I sent my dad—who’s old enough to remember programming computers with punch cards—a photo of a two-terabyte M.2 drive. He replied: “The first Burroughs 5700 mainframe I worked on had a two-megabyte drive about the size of two washing machines.” Well, according to Western Digital, next Christmas I might be able to send him a tiny SSD with literally eight million times as much storage. The storage company (which also owns the SanDisk brand as of 2016) announced a slew of new products ahead of the FMS 2024 industry trade show in Santa Clara. In addition to data center flash storage…