Advantages and Challenges for SSDs in Immersion Cooling Environment

Learn about the advantages and challenges of using Solid State Drives (SSDs) in immersion cooling environments through this 14-minute conference talk from the Open Compute Project. Explore how data centers driven by AI and high-performance computing are moving toward higher rack densities, making traditional air cooling less viable for thermal management, and discover how immersion cooling offers a sustainable and efficient thermal solution. Examine the specific challenges and opportunities that SSDs face when operating with immersion cooling fluids, including extensive testing results on internal SSD components across different dielectric liquids such as synthetic oils, gas-to-liquid coolants, and fluoride liquids. Understand the industry challenges in providing reliability warranties and managing wearout for SSDs used in immersion cooling solutions, and investigate the impacts of multiple fluids in the absence of acceleration factors for reliability assessment.