Memory and storage brand Solidigm has announced they will be pushing out the world’s 1st liquid-cooled enterprise SSD, and it will be named D7-PS1010.
Housed in a slim, blade-like E1 form factor with a PCIe 5.0 interface, this special model comes wrapped in a cold plate with hose connectors on both ends, which makes it hot-swappable and capable of directly cooling the controller and NAND chips. And by working closely with Supermicro, they are aiming to bring this towards AI servers that are running Direct-Attached Storage (DAS), with added benefits of being easily servicable, as they claimed to have tested in the latest NVIDIA HGX B300-based systems, so yeah, if the best AI servers can use it, you sure can trust this one.
Available in sizes of 3.84 TB version that’s 9.5 mm thick and a 7.68 TB model at 15 mm, Solidigm says that despite the drive itself is a 176-layer TLC 3D NAND unit, their liquid cooling design is capable of cooling both sides of the PCB, and deployable in storage racks that has no fans whatsoever, so one can tailor solutions based on this to create smaller and more efficient setups.
As for speed, they are rated for up to 14,500 MB/s and 8,400 MB/s in sequential reads and writes, while random IOPS come in at 3.2M read and 315K writes. Lastly, Endurance is rated at 1 DWPD, translating to about 7 petabytes written over its lifespan, backed by a five-year warranty.
With data centers gearing up for 1GW power consumption soon, with a 10GW goal down the line, this might be one of the key aspects that can be integrated into next-gen facilities.
