March 2025 – The SSD Guy Blog

A Liquid Cooled SSD, AND It’s Hot Swappable!

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Solidigm has unveiled a hot-swappable liquid-cooled enterprise SSD. The company expects for this to help remove any need for cooling fans and allow designers to create fully liquid-cooled AI servers and storage systems. They took some time to brief The SSD Guy about their new approach to heat removal.

Here’s what they were looking to accomplish: Hyperscalers and other large computing installations would like Continue reading “A Liquid Cooled SSD, AND It’s Hot Swappable!”

Why Does AI Need Different SSDs?

AI is on everyone’s minds these days, and SSD makers have lately been touting certain models, explaining that they have been designed for AI applications. Why would that be? Is there a difference between AI SSDs and those used for conventional applications?

The answers to both questions would be “Yes,” and in this post The SSD Guy will attempt to explain why in a Continue reading “Why Does AI Need Different SSDs?”