Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs Offer Great Performance For Servers

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Solidigm D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs Offer Great Performance For Servers

Solidigm today is formally announcing the D7-PS1010 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSDs for the data center. The new D7-PS1010 solid-state drives offer phenomenal performance for PCIe Gen 5 servers as I've enjoyed in testing out a few of these D7-PS1010 SSDs the past several weeks and their leading performance that should be especially appealing for modern AI and HPC servers.

https://www.phoronix.com/review/solidigm-d7-ps1010

[kylew77]

If it is not too much trouble, could you throw in ZFS to the FS benchmark run?

[coder]

Thanks for the tests, Michael!

Last year I got a good deal on an older model Solidigm SSD datacenter SSD at Provantage, which is an authorized reseller (i.e. providing full manufacturer warranty coverage). I see they already have the D7-PS1010 listed, starting at $484 for the 1.92 TB size. They also list the D7-PS1030, but it starts at $579 for 1.6 TB.

Drive temperatures of these Solidigm D7-PS1010 SSDs weren't anything to worry about with them running quite cool even with PCIe 5.0 speeds.

FWIW, I assume these were tested by mounting them in the backplane of a server chassis. If mounting in a desktop chassis, I recommend using a M.2 -> U.2 cable kit and mounting it in your drive cage, directly behind an intake fan. The other option is to get a PCIe adapter board for mounting like an add-in-card, but most desktop cases lack direct airflow there, so the 5W idle and 17W max power is likely to be an issue.

It might be possible to reduce idle power if you can enable ASPM. The tradeoff is some extra latency when waking up the drive from a low power state. You can find some data on this, here:

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16458/2021-ssd-benchmark-suite/6

[coder]

I'll have out more benchmarks on them soon, including a fresh Linux file-system comparison with the likes of EXT4, XFS, Btrfs, F2FS, and Bcachefs.

Michael, have you ever tried benchmarking BTRFS with csum: xxhash ? It would seem to provide the most visible benefit on such a fast drive.

For details, see:

https://wiki.tnonline.net/w/Btrfs/Checksum_Algorithms

[Michael]

If it is not too much trouble, could you throw in ZFS to the FS benchmark run?

Currently OpenZFS doesn't work on Linux 6.11 Git.

[jochendemuth]

Solidigm advertises a >1.9x speed improvement in Aerospike workloads. Would you be able to validate this?

[Michael]

Solidigm advertises a >1.9x speed improvement in Aerospike workloads. Would you be able to validate this?

Last I tried some months ago I couldn't get an Aerospike benchmark automating well.

[cjcox]

Was going to buy some with the money saved from cancelling Netflix, but dang that decimal point!!!