Solidigm unveils 122TB data center SSD for AI workloads

The specs are impressive. The SSD has a max power draw of 25 watts, the same as a regular low density PCIe SSD. It can reach 7.4 GB per second of sequential reads, pretty much saturating the PCIe 4.0 interface.

With 122TB in a 3.5-inch form factor, the D5-P5336 consumes up to 84% less storage power in network-attached storage (NAS) deployments versus a legacy hybrid hard-disk drive triple level cell (TLC) solutions. That also means a 4-to-1 footprint reduction over the old hybrid solution.

Solidigm plans to start sampling the drive in January next year, and it is due to become available for purchase by midyear.

Micron unveils 60TB PCIe 5 SSD

Micron Technology announced it has begun qualification of the 60TB 6550 ION NVMe SSD with customers. Micron claims the 6550 ION is the world’s fastest 60TB data center SSD and the industry’s first E3.S and PCIe Gen5 60TB SSD.

The 6550 ION is designed for high-capacity NVMe workloads such as networked AI data lakes, ingest, data preparation and checkpointing, file and object storage, public cloud storage, analytic databases, and content delivery. It achieves 12GB/s of throughput while using just 20 watts of power and idols at just 4 watts of power.

Micron’s emphasis with the 6550 ION is power efficiency, claiming the drive delivers up to 179% faster sequential reads and 179% higher read bandwidth per watt, 150% faster sequential writes and 213% higher write bandwidth per watt, and 80% faster random reads and 99% higher read IOPS per watt than the competition.