Sandisk today announced its PCIe Gen 5 Sandisk SN861 NVMe SSD has received OCP Inspired recognition from Open Compute Project (OCP), meeting the Datacenter NVMe SSD Specification and demonstrating product efficiency, impact, openness, scale and sustainability following OCP Foundation review. The Sandisk SN861 NVMe SSD is available on the OCP Marketplace.

As artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications grow, high-performance solid-state drives (SSDs) optimized for the demands of AI workloads are a critical component for hyperscale, cloud and enterprise data centers. The Sandisk SN861 NVMe SSD features enterprise-class speeds, with performance, capacity and power efficiency ready to scale with enterprise infrastructure at every phase of the AI Data Cycle.