Nevidrive

Nevidrive is a term used in speculative discussions of computer storage to describe a hypothetical ultra-fast, energy-efficient data storage medium that combines the roles of memory and storage. In such imaginings, nevidrive would provide non-volatile persistence with latency and bandwidth approaching that of volatile memory, while offering high endurance and simplified data movement for large-scale applications.

The term is not tied to a single company or standard, but appears in academic writing, futurist predictions, and techno-business discourse as a way to discuss what might come after solid-state drives and current persistent memory technologies.

Design concepts associated with nevidrive typically envision a non-volatile storage medium built with emerging memory technologies (such as phase-change RAM, MRAM, or other next-generation NVM) and augmented with on-drive processing or near-drive compute. The goal is to reduce data transfer, accelerate analytics and AI workloads, and enable storage to participate more directly in computation. The power efficiency and heat management are frequently cited as important considerations.

As of the mid-2020s, there is no commercial product or broadly adopted standard known as nevidrive. It remains a hypothetical construct that overlaps with ongoing research in storage-class memory, computational storage, neuromorphic computing, and hybrid memory systems.

See also: non-volatile memory, storage-class memory, computational storage, NVMe, MRAM, phase-change memory.