Solidigm Extends AI SSD Portfolio Leadership with Lightning-Fast Additions to their D7 Product Line

August 6, 2024 – Rancho Cordova, Calif.– Today, Solidigm, a leading provider of innovative NAND flash memory solutions, announced the launch of the Solidigm™ D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030 data center solid-state drives (SSDs). As the fastest PCIe 5.0 SSDs¹ shipping in volume today, these drives are well suited for the IO intensity found in modern mainstream, mixed, and write-centric workloads.  

“The Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030 SSDs were meticulously engineered to meet the increasingly demanding IO requirements across a range of workloads such as general-purpose servers, OLTP, server-based storage, decision support systems and AI/ML,” said Greg Matson, Senior Vice President of Strategic Planning and Marketing at Solidigm. “In a world where every watt counts, these drives are PCIe 5.0 done right, not only delivering industry-leading four-corner performance,² but also up to 70% better energy efficiency compared to similar drives by other manufacturers.³”  

Available in E3.S and U.2 form factors, the newest Solidigm SSDs come in a range of capacities and endurance options and are a strong extension to the company’s portfolio of best-in-industry storage for AI. 

D7-PS1010 
 
A standard endurance (SE) drive, the Solidigm D7-PS1010 is available in 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB, and 15.36TB capacities. Over a 5-year period, the SE models provide 1.0 drive writes per day (DWPD) and boast substantial maximum lifetime program/erase cycles, with 28 petabytes written (PBW) for the 15.36TB variant. In server-based storage solutions, the D7-PS1010 can accelerate sequential write throughput up to 37% faster than drives with similar specifications.⁴ Offering a balance of performance and capacity, this drive is ideal for a wide range of mainstream applications.  
 

D7-PS1030

A mid-endurance (ME) drive, the Solidigm D7-PS1030 is available in 1.6TB, 3.2TB, 6.4TB, and 12.8TB capacities and offers an impressive 70 PBW for the 12.8TB variant. When placed in an all-flash performance tier for AI workloads, the D7-PS1030 helps overcome hard disk drive (HDD) performance, endurance, and reliability limitations. With write performance more than double that of the previous generation Solidigm drive,5 the D7-PS1030 is particularly suited for operations requiring write-intensive usages such as caching and checkpointing.   

The new drives are built to excel at every stage of the AI data pipeline and deliver up to 50% higher throughput in certain pipeline phases⁶ compared to similar drives in their class. These SSDs can be deployed as GPU direct attach drives in GPU servers or as part of a high-performance all-flash tier supporting lower-performing HDDs in network attach storage configurations.  

“As AI workloads continue to surge, storage performance becomes critical,” said Ace Stryker, Director of Market Development at Solidigm. “The Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030 are a game-changer for AI-driven enterprises, capable of outperforming competitors at critical stages of the AI pipeline.”  

With this launch, Solidigm continues its commitment to delivering industry-leading quality and reliability. By employing methodologies like testing to zero tolerance for data errors,⁷ built-in redundancies, enhanced power loss management, and engineering for performance consistency over the life of the drive,⁸ these SSDs far surpass required industry specifications and common practices. Combined with new OCP-compliant thermal management capabilities, and new security capabilities such as secure boot and data at rest protection and attestation, the D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030 drives are designed to be deployed with utmost confidence in cloud and enterprise usages. 

For more information on how Solidigm D7-PS1010 and Solidigm D7-PS1030 drives can help you power your workloads, visit our website.  

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Footnotes

¹ Comparing product specifications and measured real-life workload performance across widely shipping PCIe 5.0 data center SSDs at the industry’s highest volume capacity point of 3.84TB (using Solidigm 2023 and 2024 shipments as industry representative data). 

² Four-corner comparison data is based on publicly available information from Samsung, Kioxia, and Micron.  

³ Comparing 7.68TB, Samsung PM1743 and Solidigm D7-PS1010. Power is measured using Quarch Technology. Solidigm™ D7-PS1010 (128KB SW QD128 IOPS/Watt 3,874), Samsung PM1743 (128KB SW QD128 IOPS/Watt 2,272). 

⁴ Workload IO characteristics based on research of publicly available materials conducted by Solidigm. Comparing Solidigm™ D7-PS1010 3.84TB (128KB Seq Write QD128 8.2 MB/s) vs Samsung PM1743 3.84TB (128KB Seq Write QD128 6.0 MB/s).  

⁵ As compared to previous generation Solidigm™ D7-P5520 and D7-P5620. 

⁶ Workload IO characteristics based on research of publicly available materials conducted by Solidigm. Solidigm™ D7-PS1010 7.68TB (32KB SW QD32 9.03GB/s 113us) vs Samsung PM1743 7.68TB (32K SW QD32 6.03GB/s 170us). 

⁷ Solidigm drives are tested to 1E-18 under full range of conditions and cycle counts throughout the life of the drive which is 100X higher than 1E-16 specified in JEDEC – Solid State Drive Requirements and Endurance Test Method (JESD218). https://www.jedec.org/standards-documents/focus/flash/solid-state-drives 

⁸ Refer to Solidigm™ D7-PS1010 product specifications for IOPS consistency. Solidigm expects up to 5% variation in throughput between drive-to-drive runs. IOPS variability measured after adjusting SSD cycle limit to simulate end of life behavior. Results are estimated or simulated. Actual results may vary.