- Seagate has started new proof of NVME hard drive concept
- The prototype system combines hard, ssds, dpu and aistore hard drives for the AI workloads
- NVME hard drives use less energy, with better efficiency and reduced storage costs
At the end of 2021, Seagate unveiled a hard -proof of concept that used the NVME protocol and a PCIE interface – two technologies generally reserved for readers in the solid state.
Demonstrates the Open Calcop Project Summit in a personalized jbod speaker with twelve 3.5 inch discs, the HDD NVME included a owner controller who supported SAS, SATA and NVME natively, without the need for a bridge.
Given as a way to simplify the infrastructure of the data center by unifying storage devices under a single interface, the reader has promised improvements in performance, lower TCO and considerable energy savings.
Combined
Quick advance to the GTC 2025, and Seagate has demonstrated a new concept proof system combining NVME HDDS and SSD with Bluefield 3 Bluefield 3 software and Nvidia Aistore to show how NVME can help meet current storage challenges in AI environments.
While other suppliers have explored similar concepts, Seagate seems to be the only company to show a functional system.
Work with customers and partners
“Unlike hard drives based on SAS / SATA, NVME hard drives remove the need for HBA, protocol and infrastructure bridges additional, which makes storage of AI more rationalized,” explains Seagate.
“These discs allow the workloads of the AI to set up a transparent scale by integrating the storage of the hard dishes with high density with a high -speed SSD cache in a unified NVME architecture.”
The Seagate prototype presented with eight NVME hard drives, four SSD NVME for chatting, the DPU Bluefield NVIDIA and the Aistore software, all housed in a hybrid table.
The team has shown that direct communication from GPU-Storage, via NVME hard drives and DPUs, reduced latency in AI workflows. The elimination of SAS / SATA inherited general costs has also simplified the architecture of the system and improved storage efficiency.
“Using NVME hard drives alongside SSDs, organizations will be able to optimize costs while maintaining performance, reserving SSDs for active data sets and using hard drives for the retention of long -term AI training data,” said Seagate.
From the point of view of the design, the addition of NVME to the hard drives only requires a few modifications, such as a PCIE interface and the firmware updates, while retaining the 3.5 -inch formal factor.
Compared to the SSDs, Seagate indicates that the NVME hard drives offer 10 times more carbon embodied by more efficient teraoctet, more efficient operational energy consumption by Téraoctet and the lower cost by Téraoctet.
When, or even if these discs reach the market is the assumption of anyone. Seagate says that it “works with customers and partners to explore how NVME hard drives can be part of new generation AI storage solutions”, but there is not yet a calendar.
