The endurance champion of SSDs the Gigabyte AI TOP 100E drive can sustain
219 petabytes written or a whole year of continuous writing at its maximum speed but how does it do it with TLC NAND?

Date:
Sun, 23 Jun 2024 21:06:16 +0000

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Gigabyte claims its AI TOP 100E SSD can sustain 219PB written or a whole year of continuous writing at maximum speed.

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Gigabyte has launched its AI TOP 100E series of SSDs specifically designed
for high-endurance tasks such as AI training.

The new SSDs are available in 1TB and 2TB capacities and come housed in a standard M.2 2280 form factor.

What makes them stand out from the competition is their extraordinary endurance ratings. Gigabyte says the 2TB model offers up to 219,000 TBW (Terabytes Written), a figure that is significantly higher than youd expect from typical consumer SSDs. The mean time between failure (MTBF) is rated as 1.6 million hours. AI TOP utility

AI TOP 100E uses the PCIe 4.0x4, NVMe 1.4 interface, so it wont win any performance races, especially not when compared to newer PCIe 5.0 drives, but its fast enough. The 1TB SSD offers sequential read speeds up to 7,200MB/s
and write speeds up to 6,500MB/s, slightly outperforming the 2TB model (7000MB/s reads, 5900MB/s writes). So essentially, based on the figures it's provided, Gigabyte is saying the 2TB model can write 219,000,000GB at 5.9
GB/s in 37,118,644 seconds, or approximately 1.18 years. That's quite a
claim.

Gigabyte hasnt detailed how it achieves its enhanced durability, nor
specified the type of 3D NAND used, but the drive supports exceptionally high levels of data write operations, rated at 60 drive writes per day (DWPD).

Dueto their limited capacity and high costs, VRAM and system DRAM often
become bottlenecks when training an AI models. The AI TOP 100E SSD does come with a "AI TOP" utility which Gigabyte says will let users offload theprocessing of large datasets from VRAM or DRAM to the AI TOP 100E SSD,effectively enlarging your memory pool and upgrading the capability to fine-tunelarge AI models. This approach enhances performance and
significantly lowers thetotal cost of ownership (TCO), with the AI TOP 100E SSD emerging as the most cost-effective option per gigabyte compared to VRAM and system DRAM.

While specific pricing and availability details have yet to be announced, the SSD comes with a five-year limited warranty or is guaranteed for 109,500 TBW (1TB model) or 219,000 TBW (2TB), whichever comes first. More from TechRadar Pro These are the best portable SSDs you can buy right now And these are the best SSDs for your PC Micron's SSD gets glowing reviews thanks to new controller and NAND



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