- The SSD of 64 TB of Teamgroup aims at the domination of the company with specific specifications for AI and Gen5 speed
- PCIe Gen5 promises speed, but the benchmarks of the real world will tell the real story of performance
- Massive storage responds to the requests of modern AI, but the price remains the elephant in the room
In a market where storage capacities and speeds are constantly evolving to meet the needs of AI and cloud infrastructure, another player has advanced with a daring offer.
Teamgroup announced its entry into the SSD 64 TB space with the SSD PCIe 5.0 Create Master AI I5U U.2 PCIe 5.0, a semiconductor reader with high capacity built by thinking of business workloads.
This launch occurs about a year after Western Digital teases a similar PCIe Gen5 model for AI applications, and five years after Nimbus data introduced the first SSD of 64 TB, the Exadrive NL series.
First -generation performance with the first company design
Unlike consumption SSDs in competition for a place among the best portable records, the latest entry of Teamgroup is intended squarely in corporate environments.
With the management of the U.2 PCIe 5.0 interface and the maximum storage capacity at 64 TB, the i5u is positioned as a tool for databases based on EDGE cloud and computer.
According to Teamgroup, it is “designed specifically for cloud infrastructure and database applications” and optimized for the requirements of “important language models” and intensive workloads focused on AI.
PCIe Gen5 has become the benchmark for future performance in the sectors of consumers and businesses, but affirmations such as “ultra-rapid speeds of PCIe Gen5 with business quality endurance” should be treated with caution.
Until third -party benchmarks emerge, it is difficult to assess the reader’s reliability and performance of the reader.
The efforts past to identify the best SSDs based solely on theoretical flow have often ignored key factors such as thermal performance, latency under load and the coherence of sustained writing, which are all essential in large -scale deployments.
Teamgroup entrance also arrives in the middle of a broader trend of high capacity SSD striking the market. From the 61.44 to D5-P5336 from Soligm to the SSD Ion 6.144TB 6550 of Micron, the competition in the ultra-high segment is heating.
An element that remains uncertain for Teamgroup’s i5u is the price. Business quality readers on this scale are rarely cheap, but Teamgroup is known for its value -oriented options.
This raises speculations according to which its SSD of 64 TB could be closer to the affordability that the previous alternatives.
Although it is unlikely to replace the best external hard drives in terms of raw cost by GigaCtet, it indicates that the ultra-high capacity SSD are closer to wider adoption.
