Solidigm has designed a unique eSSD that uses direct-to-chip liquid cooling instead of traditional fans for enhanced thermals.
Solidigm Intros D7-PS1010 E1.S eSSD for Fanless Servers, Coupled with Cold Plate for Superior Cooling Without Needing Fans
Enterprise data storage manufacturer, Solidigm, has introduced its latest E1.S form factor SSD called D7-PS1010, which offers an innovative cooling solution for servers where normal airflow cooling isn't practical. The D7-PS1010 is an eSSD for enterprises that is the world's first SSD, featuring a cold plate instead of fans, that aims to achieve superior cooling while occupying less space.
Solidigm’s Cold-Plate-Cooled eSSD is a breakthrough for thermal optimization, unlocking tremendous value inside the most advanced GPU servers,
This is the world's first single-sided Cold-Plate solution that cools both sides of the SSD, delivering the most efficient storage subsystem available to alleviate the strain placed on SSDs in dense AI environments.
- Greg Matson, Senior Vice President and Head of Products and Marketing, Solidigm
The SSD utilizes direct-to-chip liquid cooling, where the coolant flows through a plate that is in direct contact with the SSD chips. This design is single-sided, but manages to cool both sides of the SSD's components without needing any fans. For enterprise servers, such cooling measures are essential since it's not always practical to deploy traditional fan cooling due to a lack of sufficient space, and more fans increase power consumption, which isn't ideal due to higher operating costs.
With the D7-PS1010, servers can achieve better efficiency without compromising on cooling performance. Since liquid cooling is more efficient and saves space, the new cooling method will allow adding more GPUs or SSDs per rack. With the launch of D7-PS1010, Solidigm is targeting AI and GPU-heavy servers as well as hyperscale data centers where space, power efficiency, and density matter. The E1.S form factor is already compact, making it ideal for servers, and eliminating additional cooling methods further saves space.
Solidigm is offering E1.S thickness options such as 9.5mm and 15mm, and capacities such as 3.84 TB and 7.68 TB. Of course, the SSD offers a PCIe 5.0 interface and, as per Solidigm, the D7-PS1010 E1.S offers "best-in-class" 4-corners storage performance when compared to other E1.S Gen 5 SSDs. Solidigm has announced its collaboration with various server ODMs and OEMs to qualify its SSDs on recommended vendors' lists as well.
Supermicro is excited to collaborate with Solidigm on their E1.S form factor Cold-Plate-Cooled eSSD technology
Their innovative SSDs can be utilized on some of the most advanced liquid-cooled architectures, including the Supermicro NVIDIA HGX B300-based GPU servers supporting compute-intensive workloads.
- Vik Malyala, MD Europe, Senior Vice President, Technology and AI, Supermicro
News Source: Solidigm
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