Gigabyte has discreetly added a new storage device to its SSD lineup as part of the AI TOP offering announced at Computex 2024.
The manufacturer aims to offer an SSD with extreme durability, with claims showing a TBW (terabytes written) value of 150 times that of a typical SSD. This AI TOP family is designed for configurations specialized in training AI models.
The 2TB AI TOP 100E model offers 219,000 TBW of endurance, while most consumer NVMe SSDs with this capacity are around 1,200 TBW. The 1TB version promises 109,500 TBW. Both drives have an MTBF (mean time between failure) of 1.6 million hours and a five-year warranty.
These SSDs support NVMe 1.4 protocol and PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. They use 3D NAND Flash chips and benefit from 1 or 2 GB of LPDDR4 DRAM cache depending on the capacity.
In terms of speeds, Gigabyte claims sequential read speeds of 7,200 MB/s and write speeds of 6.5 GB/s for the 1 TB model and 5.9 GB/s for the 2 TB model. Consumption can reach 11 watts, which is high for a PCIe 4.0 SSD. Gigabyte hasn’t given pricing or availability dates for these new SSDs.