Meet the 'Duracell Bunny' of SSDs that can withstand 50 drive writes per day for five whole years - but it won't come cheap

• InnoGrit N3X SSD delivers 50 DWPD endurance but costs more than typical enterprise drives
• Built for caching, inference, and workloads that punish ordinary SSDs
• Runs entirely in SLC mode, sacrificing capacity for serious performance gains

The InnoGrit N3X SSD introduces a high-endurance storage solution aimed at enterprise workloads with extreme write demands.

Unveiled at Computex 2025, and featuring Kioxia’s second-generation XL-Flash operating in SLC mode, the drive is engineered to deliver 50 drive writes per day (DWPD) over five years, far exceeding the endurance of typical enterprise SSDs.

This level of durability is impressive, but it also raises questions about the cost of the device and whether its performance will justify the expected premium.

SCM roots and a specialized architecture

At the heart of the N3X is storage class memory (SCM), a memory tier designed to bridge the performance gap between DRAM and traditional NAND flash ...