Phison Pascari D200V PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD with 122.88TB of Capacity Announced
Phison Pascari D200V PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD with 122.88TB of Capacity Announced

            Phison Pascari D200V Cover
            Phison is joining the 122.88TB NVMe SSD party with something decidedly different. The company is offering a PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD variant in the Phison Pascari D200V line. High-capacity NVMe SSDs have become a big game-changer in the AI space as they can drastically cut footprint and power over hard drive solutions.

The drives support sequential reads of 14000MB/s and writes of 2100MB/s. Typically, this tier of storage is very read-heavy. In 2016, STH was in the Phison booth at Flash Memory Summit 2016 with a 24x 960GB solution (23.04TB) that delivered 1M IOPS. Now, a single drive offers 122.88TB of capacity and 3 million random read IOPS.
Phison Pascari D200V Specs FMS 2024
The larger capacities are only available in U.2 or E3.L, with the U.2 version slated for the end of 2024, while the E3.L 122.88TB version is slated for July 2025. The E3.S will top out at 30.72TB.
Phison Pascari D200V Family Specs FMS 2024
Phison Pascari also has a number of other D200 drives coming, such as the D200P and D200E, but those will be lower-capacity drives.
Phison Pascari Product Portfolio FMS 2024
Notable in this slide is that the D200V is slated for Q1 2025.
Final Words
We titled our Solidigm D5-P5336 61.44TB SSD Review Hard Drives Lost. Our idea was that SSDs provided much better power, space, and reliability advantages to the point that hard drives would become obsolete. Still, to this day, we have heard estimates of 90% of data being stored on hard drives. What changed is AI clusters. Modern large AI clusters tend to have large storage arrays located nearby. Swapping from hard drives to high-capacity NVMe SSDs not only has a performance benefit but it saves a lot of power. We have seen figures of tens of kW for even relatively smaller-scale AI storage in the 10PB range just by using 61.44TB NVMe SSDs. Since power is a big constraint, high-capacity flash has become extremely popular, and we are seeing many vendors announce or release 122.88TB drives to capture that market demand.
        