New Cooling Concept: Soligm Defines Server SSDs More Capable Underwater 10 comments
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The CPU and GPU are often already liquid-cooled in the server, but what about SSDs? This issue focuses on SolidIGM at GTC 2025 with one of the world’s first fluid-cooled enterprise SSDs for AI applications.
Despite water cooling, hot swapping remains possible
While previous approaches to direct liquid cooling only cooled one side of the SSD and also prevented rapid swapping of data carriers (hot swapping), Soligm has come up with something new with NVIDIA. With the illustrated liquid-cooling plate kit, SSDs can be easily swapped into the 9.5 mm Slim E1. The videos show that the SSDs are plugged into a kind of magazine and can be easily removed again using a spring mechanism. The cold platform with the liquid cycle connections is located in the magazine. Although it only makes contact with the SSD, its metal housing encloses the components on both sides, ensuring heat dissipation is still achieved from both sides. This design should be able to cool up to 30 watts per SSD, Soligm explained in an interview.
This is intended to make the vision of a fan-cooled, purely fluid data center possible. Additional infrastructure for air cooling can then be avoided, saving space and costs.
The straight SSD (D7-PS1010 E1.S) and the cold plate kit are expected to be available in the second half of the year. The D7-PS1010 is the fastest SSD in the solidigm portfolio and, depending on the variant, achieves up to 14.5 GB/s and a good IOPS of 3 million PCIe 5.0 x4.
SOLIGM D7-PS1010 Micron 9550 Pro Samsung PM1743 Kioxia CM7-R SEQ. Read Max. 14,500 MB/s 14,000 MB/s 14,000 MB/s 14,000 MB/s SEQ. Letter Max. 9,300 MB/s 10,000 MB/s 6,000 MB/s 6,750 MB/s Random Read Max. 3.100K IOPS 2.500K IOPS 2.450K IOPS Random Writing Max. 400K IOPS 300K IOPS 300K IOPS Topics: Enterprise NVIDIA GTC 2025 Server Soligm SSD Storage Water Collation Source: solidigm
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