- Silicon Motion 128TB SSD RDK Optimizes AI pipes with improved data control
- PERFORMASAPE technology increases SSD efficiency of AI-powered workload
- Montitan SSDS PCIE Gen 5 -speed improves Enterprise Data flow
Silicon Motion, a leading Nand Flash Controller designer, has begun to deliver its 128TB SSD Reference Design Kit (RDK), to select partners after almost three years of testing since its first announcement in 2022.
This large SSD kit, which uses the latest 2 TB Die QLC NAND, is built on the Montitan PCIE Gen 5 platform and has advanced firmware to maximize performance and efficiency in AI tools’ work loads, making it one of the best external SSD designs available.
Montitan RDK, designed for corporate and data centers, provides sequential reading speeds exceeding 14 GB/s, ranks among the fastest external SSDs, with random reading performance of over 3.3 million IOPs for Effective Data Data. Kity uses PCIe Dual Ported Enterprise-Grade SM8366 Controller with support for PCIE Gen 5 x4 NVME 2.0 and OCP 2.5 Data Center Specifications.
High -speed storage that could shake the business market
RDK’s high-speed performance provides an improvement of 25% in random reading efficiency compared to other Gen 5 solutions, making it particularly suitable for AI applications such as Large Language Model (LLM) training and graph Neural Network (GNN) calculations.
In addition, the Drive Designed NVME uses 2.0 FDP (flexible data placement) to improve writing efficiency and endurance, which is expanding the life of QLC NAND.
“Silicon Motions Montitan SSD RDK offers a comprehensive solution for our customers, enabling them to quickly develop and implement SSDs in Enterprise-Class tailored to AI data center and Edge Server applications.” Said Alex Chou, Senior VP for Enterprise Storage and Display Interface Solution Business.
“By providing this fully integrated platform that supports up to 128 TB SSD with QLC NAND, we allow our customers and solution partners to speed up the development and commercialization of the AI solution’s growing demand for high capacity, high-performance storage.”
Silicon Motion’s proprietary Performashape technology optimizes SSD performance based on custom quality of service (QOS) parameters, reducing latency. The new RDK could play a crucial role in AI storage and data center infrastructure, optimization of multi-tenant environments by effectively dealing with AI Datappeline stages such as ingestion, preparation, training and inference.
“We are pleased to collaborate with Silicon Motion in the development of our latest company’s SSD for AI servers and data centers. With Silicon Motion’s Montitan Enterprise SSD development platform, we have the flexibility to design company’s SSDs that deliver industry performance,” said CC WU, VP for Innodic.
Frank Chen, CEO of Exascend said, “In an era of AI Explosion, data storage is more critical than ever. Through this collaboration with silicon movement, we have developed a PCIE Gen 5 SSD tailored to AI servers, ensuring stable reading and writing speeds with effective data management, perfectly met storage requirement from AI.”
Via TechPowerup
