Ahead-looking: As PCIe 5.0 SSD speeds quickly enhance and the PCIe 4.0 SSD costs proceed to tumble, the enterprise market is pushing new boundaries for storage. Knowledge facilities are beginning to see quick 30 TB SSDs, with fashions doubling that capability coming later this yr.
Solidigm has revealed an enterprise-focused PCIe SSD that it goals to supply in sizes starting from 7.68 TB to 61.44 TB. These greater capacities can cut back the bodily measurement and price of present knowledge middle drive arrays.
The PCIe 4.0 D5-P5336 is the world’s first quad-level cell SSD, with a 7GB/s sequential learn velocity and a 3.1GB/s sequential write velocity. The product web page signifies that these numbers permit just a little over 1 million 4K learn IOPs and 31,000 16K write IOPs. Solidigm first revealed its plans to make 61.44 TB storage units at Tech Subject Day 2022 final November.
The drive is out there now within the E1.L type think about 15.36 TB and 30.72 TB capacities. The corporate plans to ship E1.L and U.2 fashions with 61.44 TB later this yr, with a 30.72 TB E3.S variant coming someday within the first half of 2024.
Solidigm designed the D5-P5336 to satisfy the rising calls for of AI, machine studying, and content material supply workloads. All of those duties require storing and shifting huge knowledge units.
Bigger-capacity drives can cut back the bodily measurement and power footprint of drive arrays. The corporate claims the D5-P5336 considerably diminishes each in comparison with TLC and HDD arrays.
With energy and cooling prices down by 125 p.c on a rack just a little over half the scale, Solidigm’s new drives may lower the whole value of possession (TOC) by 17 p.c in comparison with an all-TLC array, assuming each deployments are 100 PB. In distinction with an all-HDD array, the D5-P5336 may reduce power and cooling bills by virtually 5 instances with a rack one-sixth the scale for a 47 p.c decrease TOC. The financial savings are essentially the most dramatic towards hybrid arrays – an as much as 600 p.c energy and cooling value discount on a rack one-seventh as the scale – leading to a 61 p.c decrease TOC.
The presently accessible 30.72 TB mannequin places Solidigm in direct competitors towards Micron, which launched a similarly-sized knowledge middle SSD in Might (in contrast within the chart above). Solidigm’s drive has barely quicker learn speeds however makes use of 20 p.c extra energy.
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