Hardware The endurance champion of SSDs — the Gigabyte AI TOP 100E

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Gigabyte has launched its AI TOP 100E series of SSDs specifically designed for high-endurance tasks such as AI training. The new SSDs are available in 1TB and 2TB capacities and come housed in a standard M.2 2280 form factor. What makes them stand out from the competition is their extraordinary endurance ratings. Gigabyte says the 2TB model offers up to 219,000 TBW (Terabytes Written), a figure that is significantly higher than you’d expect from typical consumer SSDs. The mean time between failure (MTBF) is rated as 1.6 million hours.

AI TOP 100E uses the PCIe 4.0x4, NVMe 1.4 interface, so it won’t win any performance races, especially not when compared to newer PCIe 5.0 drives, but it’s fast enough. The 1TB SSD offers sequential read speeds up to 7,200MB/s and write speeds up to 6,500MB/s, slightly outperforming the 2TB model (7000MB/s reads, 5900MB/s writes). So essentially, based on the figures it's provided, Gigabyte is saying the 2TB model can write 219,000,000GB at 5.9 GB/s in 37,118,644 seconds, or approximately 1.18 years. That's quite a claim.
 

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That is some incredible endurance. I wonder if they can make a cheaper version for the consumer market. It would probably do laps around the competition.
 
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