New SSDs from NVIDIA and Kioxia will be 33 times faster than existing ones |
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Kioxia and NVIDIA are working together on a solid-state drive that should deliver a record 100 million random operations per second (IOPS) by 2027. NVIDIA plans to use these SSDs directly with graphics processors, which will enable up to 200 million I/O operations and significantly speed up AI task processing. The new drives are expected to operate via a PCIe 7.0 interface in peer-to-peer mode, bypassing traditional bottlenecks in data exchange. Unlike standard SSDs, they are designed exclusively for artificial intelligence servers, where instant access to large amounts of information is required. For comparison, modern top-of-the-line SSDs are capable of performing around 3 million IOPS on 4K blocks. However, this is not enough for GPUs optimized for fast memory access. According to Silicon Motion, NVIDIA showed interest in 100 million IOPS solutions at the beginning of the year, which is 33 times higher than current models. The drives may be based on XL-Flash, a type of SLC NAND memory with low latency and high wear resistance. At the same time, experts do not rule out that Kioxia may use other approaches, including the promising High Bandwidth Flash (HBF) technology, which provides a multiple increase in parallelism by integrating multiple NAND crystals and logic into a single stack. |
