Gigabyte Introduces New AITOP100E SSD for Intense AI Workloads

TapTechNews June 19th news, Gigabyte (Gigabyte) company has newly launched the AITOP100E SSD for intensive AI workloads, with its 2TB model capable of reaching up to 219,000 TBW, and the 1TB model reaching 109,500 TBW.

The 1TB solid-state drive has higher performance, with consecutive read and write speeds reaching up to 7,200 MB/s and 6,500 MB/s respectively. The specification of the 2TB model is slightly lower, with the same consecutive read speed of 7,200 MB/s, but the consecutive write speed is only 5,900 MB/s.

The AITOP100E solid-state drive adopts the standard M.2 2280 form factor and uses the PCIe 4.0 interface. The focus of this SSD is not on performance, but on durability. The official did not disclose which 3D NAND flash is specifically used.

TBW refers to Terabyte Writteb, which means the terabytes written, or it can also be defined as Total Bytes Written. It refers to the total amount of data that can be written to the SSD during the specified workload before the end of the SSD's service life and is used to express the life index of the solid-state drive.

TapTechNews describes in a more intuitive way what the 219,000 TBW represents, which means that users can use it continuously for 5 years if they work at a write speed of 2 TB/s for 17 hours every day, comparable to enterprise and data center grade solid-state drives.

Compared with the top PCIe 4.0 SSD, the Samsung 990 Pro, under the same capacity, the durability of this AITOP100E SSD of Gigabyte is 183 times.

Gigabyte claims that the TBW value of the AITOP100E SSD is 150 times higher than that of traditional PCIe 4.0 SSD (1,400 TBW).