Phison Reveals Pascari D205V Gen5 SSD For Data Centers, Featuring A Whopping 128 TB Of Storage Space

The Phison Pascari D205V Gen5 SSD will be available in U.2 and E3.L form factors, ready to ship in Q2 2025 with up to 128 TB capacity.

Phison announces 128 TB PCIe Gen5 SSD for “Next-Level” data center performance, delivering 14,600 MB/s of sequential reads

Phison, the company that manufactures solid-state drives for data centers, has unveiled its flagship data center SSD, the Pascari D205V for next-level data performance. With increasing storage demands of data centers and consumers, the D205V brings twice the storage size compared to the current high-end SSDs.

The Phison D205V is a PCI-E 5.0 SSD, featuring a whopping 128 TB of storage space, doubling the storage space from the existing high-storage SSDs with 60 TB capacity.

As reported by Phison, a 128TB SSD that reaches 4 times the capacity of HDDs, the D205V SSD will be aimed at AI applications, entertainment, and research in data centers. It is the first SSD to bring 128 TB(122.88 TB storage capacity to be exact) with sequential read speeds of up to 14,600 MB/s and 3,200 MB/s of sequential writes.

The SSD can perform up to 3 million IOPS for 4K random reads and 35,000 IOPS for 16K random writes. Phison says that the new SSD will not only reduce the footprint by bringing more storage capacity in the same space but will also reduce the operating costs of data centers.

The D205V will be available in both U.2 and E3.L form factors and will come with dual PCI-E Gen5 ports. The interfaces available are NVMe 2.0, ISE, TCG opal, and NVMe-MI, which enable the SSD to bring various security and…