Solidigm touts industry’s first liquid-cooled enterprise SSD — D7-PS1010 is an E.1 PCIe 5.0 drive with a wrap-around cold plate

Solidigm has announced what it calls the industry’s first liquid-cooled enterprise SSD, the D7-PS1010, in the blade-like E.1 form factor with a PCIe 5.0 interface. The SSD board is ensconced in a wraparound cold plate, with hose connectors at the ends, making for a hot-swappable design that directly cools the controller and NAND chips.

The company is pointing this SSD at AI servers with Direct-Attached Storage (DAS, as opposed to using a separate storage). To that effect, Solidigm talks up a partnership…