VAST Amplify's '6x Capacity' Claim: Exploiting a Real Crisis with Fake Math

VAST Data has found its most cynical marketing angle yet: exploiting a genuine supply crisis to sell the same fraudulent data reduction math we&rsquo;ve already debunked . On January 27, 2026, VAST announced &ldquo;VAST Amplify,&rdquo; a program claiming to deliver &ldquo;up to 6x or more effective capacity&rdquo; from existing SSDs. Two weeks earlier, Blocks and Files ran a breathless piece about…