Solidigm launches industry s first liquid-cooled TLC SSD to help AI servers spread

SK Hynix's all-invested subsidiary Solidigm announced the launch of the industry's first liquid-cooled TLC SSD - D7-PS1010, which uses E1.S appearance specifications and PCIe 5.0 interface. The biggest feature of this SSD is its single-sided cold plate direct-through liquid cooling design, which can cool both sides of the wafer at the same time, and has a heat plug-in and unplugging function.

D7-PS1010 provides 3.84TB and 7.68TB capacity, uses 176-layer TLC 3D NAND, which can reach 14.5 GB/s read, 8.4 GB/s write under read-intensive workloads, and supports up to 3.2 million IOPS random read performance. Solidigm is also working with Supermicro to deploy this liquid-cooled SSD on a GPU server equipped with NVIDIA HGX B300 to further expand AI computing performance and server heat dissipation efficiency.

As the AI ​​craze pushes up the computing power demand of data centers, the storage system not only needs to read at high speed, but also can withstand frequent writing work. TLC SSD has also become one of the solutions for AI training storage; while the scale of AI recommendations continues to expand, the demand for TLC products will also increase simultaneously, driving its development in the enterprise market.

In the face of the rising power consumption and high heat density challenges of AI servers, traditional air cooling solutions have gradually become difficult to deal with. Liquid cooling technology is becoming the mainstream of the new generation of market. Through more efficient heat dissipation methods, it can not only support higher density and smaller server designs, but also open up a new situation for the heat dissipation efficiency and energy management of the next-generation AI data center.

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