News GPU meets PCIe-based hard drives: Seagate and Nvidia demo NVMe HDDs

[Admin]

Seagate and Nvidia demonstrate a proof-of-concept NVMe HDD system at GTC, showcasing how PCIe-based hard drives, combined with DPUs, can enhance AI datacenter storage by reducing latency, improving scalability, and offering a cost-effective alternative to all-flash solutions.

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[Jame5]

Yes, lets replace the 64TB, 128TB and upcoming 256TB class SSDs that are 2.5" format or smaller with... 3.5" drives that top out at 30TB of storage capacity and ultimately use more power per byte.

I'm sure a ton of AI cluster designers will opt for that solution.

 

[drtweak]

"Serial ATA (SATA), and SATA, "

A little redundant there? lol

Also it says that it will make the drives faster? I would assume in random reads and writes? I mean what Spinner can max out a single SATA 3 (6Gbps) lane anyways? Maybe give them some more cashe or DRAM maybe?

I mean don't get me wrong, i think it is cool, just we already have controllers that can user NVMe, SAS, SATA all using the SAS connector. I would assume the bottle neck though would be the controllers connection to the rest of the board.