- Seagate has presented a new NVME Hard Disk concept test
- NVME, SSDS, DPU and Isolate Systems Systems Pares For AI work loads
- NVME HDD use less energy, with better efficiency and reduced storage costs
At the end of 2021, Seagate released a hard -proof hard drive unit that used the NVME protocol and a PCIE interface, two technologies typically reserved for solid state units.
Demonstrated at the Open Compute project summit in a personalized JBOD enclosure with twelve 3.5 -inch units, the NVME HDD presented a patented controller that admitted SAS, SATA and NVME natively, without the need for a bridge.
Seen as a way to simplify the infrastructure of the data center through the unification of storage devices under a single interface, the unit promised performance improvements, lower TCO and considerable energy saving.
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Fast advance to GTC 2025, and Seagate has demonstrated a new proof of concept proof system that combines HDD and SSD NVME with the Bluefield 3 DPU and Nvidia insulatory software to show how NVME can help address common storage challenges in AI environments.
While other suppliers are exploring similar concepts, Seagate seems to be the only company that shows a functional system.
Work with customers and partners
“Unlike hard discs based on SAS/SATA, NVME hard drives eliminate the need for HBA, additional protocol and infrastructure bridges, which makes the storage of AI more aerodynamic,” says Seagate.
“These units allow the workloads to climb perfectly integrating high -density hard drive storage with high -speed SSD storage cache in a unified NVME architecture.”
The prototype seagate exhibited had eight NVME hard drives, four NVME SSD for cache storage, Nvidia Bluefield Dpus and insulato software, all housed inside a hybrid matrix.
The team showed that direct GPU communication to storage, through hard drives and DPU NVME, reduced latency in AI work flows. Eliminating Legacy SAS/SATA overload also simplified system architecture and the best storage efficiency.
“By using NVME hard drives together with SSD, organizations can optimize the cost while maintaining performance, reserving SSD for active data sets and using hard drives for the retention of long -term AI training data,” says Seagate.
From a design perspective, add NVME to HDDS potentially only requires a few changes, such as a PCIE interface and firmware updates, while retaining the 3.5 -inch family factor.
Compared to the SSD, Seagate says that NVME hard drives offer 10 times more efficient incorporated carbon by Terabyte, four times more efficient operational energy consumption by Terabyte and lower cost per Terabyte.
When, or in fact, if these units will reach the market it is a assumption of anyone. Seagate says he is “working with customers and partners to explore how hard -to -hone hard drives can fit the next -generation AI storage solutions”, but there is still no timeline for it.
