Pascari AI Branding & Growth Strategy
- Phison made a strong showing at FMS 2024, highlighting its advancements in enterprise SSD and PCIe retimer technology, alongside its consumer-focused products.
- Phison's Pascari brand aims to make its enterprise SSDs more accessible.
- The D200V Gen 5 SSD stood out with its 61.44 TB capacity, with plans for a 122.88 TB version.
Discover how Phison is revolutionizing enterprise storage and AI training. At FMS 2024, they showcased their Pascari brand, highlighting high-performance enterprise SSDs and PCIe retimer solutions.Their aim is to make advanced technology accessible and affordable. News Directory 3 is here to provide updates on their advancements. The aiDAPTIV+ pro suite caught the attention of many. This AI training suite targets small and medium-sized businesses by providing a cost-effective alternative to full-fledged DGX workstations.The Pascari brand features AI series SSDs that support up to 100 DWPD thanks to the aiDAPTIVE+ technology. These SSDs can be used to extend existing GPU VRAM, which results in a meaningful reduction in the total cost of ownership. The D200V Gen 5 SSD and X200 also caught the eye. Learn more about the future of storage solutions and discover what’s next …
Phison Showcases Enterprise SSD and PCIe Retimer Solutions at FMS 2024
Updated May 28, 2025
Phison made a strong showing at FMS 2024, highlighting its advancements in enterprise SSD and PCIe retimer technology, alongside its consumer-focused products. Historically, Phison has partnered with drive manufacturers to bring its controller and silicon solutions to market. A notable collaboration includes the X1 series with Seagate, which led to Nytro-branded enterprise SSDs. Seagate defined the requirements and played a role in firmware progress before qualifying the drives for thier data center clients.
Phison’s Pascari brand aims to make its enterprise SSDs more accessible. The company displayed a range of Pascari SSDs, each tailored for specific applications, from high-performance enterprise drives in the X series to boot drives in the B series. The AI series offers variants supporting up to 100 DWPD (Drive Writes Per Day), thanks to the aiDAPTIVE+ technology.
The D200V Gen 5 SSD stood out with its 61.44 TB capacity, with plans for a 122.88 TB version. Designed for read-heavy workloads, this QLC-based drive achieves sustained sequential write speeds of 2.1 GBps.
In contrast, the X200 is a gen 5 eTLC drive, delivering up to 8.7 GBps sequential writes. Available in read-centric (1 DWPD) and mixed workload (3 DWPD) versions, it offers capacities up to 30.72 TB. the X100 eTLC drive builds upon the X1/Seagate Nytro 5050 platform, featuring updated NAND and increased capacities. These enterprise SSD solutions incorporate standard features like power-loss protection and FIPS certifiability.
Phison also demonstrated extraordinary speeds of over 100 GBps using a standard desktop workstation. This was achieved by installing two HighPoint Rocket 1608A add-in cards, each supporting eight M.2 slots, and configuring the 16 M.2 drives in a RAID 0 setup.HighPoint technology and Phison are collaborating to qualify E26-based drives for this specific application.
One of the more compelling demonstrations at Phison’s booth was the aiDAPTIV+ Pro suite. Building on previous work, Phison introduced a middleware layer to ensure more sequential workloads, boosting the endurance rating to 100 DWPD. this AI training suite targets small and medium-sized businesses, offering a cost-effective alternative to full-fledged DGX workstations for on-premises fine-tuning.
By utilizing these AI SSDs as an extension of GPU VRAM, companies can realize meaningful TCO benefits. the costly AI training-specific GPUs can be replaced with more affordable off-the-shelf RTX GPUs. The middleware is licensed with the purchase of AI-series SSDs, which currently feature gen 4 x4 interfaces in U.2 or M.2 form factors. Using SSDs as a caching layer enables fine-tuning of models with a large number of parameters, minimizing the reliance on GPUs for HBM capacity.
What’s next
phison is expected to continue refining its enterprise SSD offerings,focusing on increased capacity,enhanced performance,and AI-driven solutions. Further details on the HighPoint Technology collaboration are anticipated in future reviews.