SK hynix has announced that its new NVMe SSD, known as the PCB01, is headed for mass production. The new drive is marketed heavily around AI applications, with the headlining feature being the company's claim that it can load LLMs in one second to system DRAM. We first heard about the drive at GTC 2024 earlier this year, where it was first unveiled, but we can't see any sign of features that would optimize this drive for AI usage over competing models.
The PCB01 is SK hynix's first PCIe 5.0 SSD for PCs, sporting read and write speeds of 14GB/s and 12GB/s, respectively. The new drive is reportedly 30% more power efficient than SK hynix's previous generation SSDs while offering twice the bandwidth. DRAM caching isn't mentioned in the specs, but the drive utilizes an SLC cache to boost drive performance in bursty workloads.
