- Polish storage vendor unveils 122.88TB PCIe 5.0 SSD designed for immersion-cooled servers
- Drive is designed for ultra-high capacity workloads with QLC NAND and modest endurance ratings
- The launch appears quietly in technical materials rather than major industry announcements.
A little-known Polish storage company has quietly unveiled an enterprise SSD designed for immersion-cooled data centers, offering capacity far beyond what most operators use today.
Goodram Enterprise, which operates as a data center oriented hand Wilk Elektronik has added a 122.88 TB PCIe 5.0 drive to its portfolio. large SSD appears in technical documentation not a loud start.
The drive belongs to the DC25F series and uses QLC NAND in the E3.S and E3.L form factors. Both versions are designed for servers designed for direct liquid immersion rather than conventional air cooling.
Built to withstand prolonged immersion
Sequential performance is quoted at up to 14.6 GB/s read and 3.2 GB/s write. Random performance numbers are around 3000K IOPS for read and 35K IOPS for write, so it is clearly designed for capacity rather than speed.
Endurance is estimated at 0.3 disk writes per day over five years. This puts it on par with other ultra-high-capacity enterprise QLC drives designed for cold and warm data tiers.
The immersion angle is central to the design. Goodram Enterprise says its enterprise SSDs have been tested using dielectric fluids commonly used in immersion cooling tanks, including Shell and Chevron formulas.
Immersion cooling exposes equipment to chemical, thermal, and material stresses not present in air-cooled racks. The company says its drives are designed to withstand prolonged immersion in water without degradation of electrical performance.
The 122.88TB model is compatible with a wider range of PCIe Gen4 and Gen5 enterprise SSDs. The entire line ranges in capacity from less than 2 TB to more than 120 TB, including TLC and QLC options.
While immersion cooling is still a niche outside of hyperscale and research deployments, interest in it continues to grow as rack power densities increase. PCIe 5.0 SSDs introduce additional thermal pressure, making liquid-based approaches more attractive.
What stands out is how little attention was paid to this release. There hasn't been a major announcement cycle, although the combination of capacity and interface puts the drive among the largest PCIe 5.0 SSDs released to date.
Anecdotal research elsewhere suggests that immersion and liquid cooling for storage systems are not limited to one vendor or approach.
DapuStor has spoke publicly on deploying enterprise dipping-capable SSDs on telecom server platforms, while Solidigm Liquid-cooled NVMe drives demonstrated designed for dense AI servers that use cold platters rather than liquid inside the drive itself.
Earlier PC experiments focused suppliers such as XPG Water-cooled PCIe 5.0 SSDs have also been explored, although these are aimed at enthusiast systems rather than data centers.
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