UNESTECH × DeepSeek: High-Efficiency Storage for Large AI Model Deployment

The rapid advancement of generative AI in recent years has unlocked immense innovative potential for scientific research institutions, enterprise developers, and AI startups alike. As a leading emerging large model platform in China, DeepSeek, renowned for its exceptional inference capabilities and open model strategy, has become the preferred choice for numerous AI developers. Within this technological wave, the frequent deployment of models and the processing of massive training datasets pose unprecedented challenges to the underlying storage infrastructure: demanding more flexible storage replacement mechanisms, higher storage density, enhanced cooling performance, and streamlined upgrade and maintenance procedures.

As an innovator in the storage solutions domain, UNESTECH leverages its specialized technical expertise to provide optimal storage support for the DeepSeek All-in-One appliance, collaboratively delivering an efficient, reliable, space-saving, and easy-to-maintain solution.

In-Depth Analysis of Storage Challenges in the AI Era

The DeepSeek All-in-One appliance, an integrated AI computing system specifically designed for large model deployment, combines computing hardware, model services, and operational management software. In practical application, developers frequently encounter the following core challenges:

• Frequent Model Iterations: Requiring continuous updates to weight files, configuration parameters, and training datasets.

• Immense Data Throughput Pressure: Training samples and vector databases often reach terabyte scales, necessitating high-speed read/write support.

• Multi-Environment Deployment Needs: Data migration across different server rooms and systems has become commonplace.

• Inconvenient Storage Replacement: Traditional chassis designs often lack hot-swap capability, requiring system shutdown and disassembly for each drive replacement.

These challenges underscore the critical importance of efficient and scalable storage solutions for the stable operation of AI All-in-One appliances.

UNESTECH's Innovative Storage Solution

As a specialized brand in industrial-grade hard drive mobile rack enclosure, UNESTECH offers a product series compatible with enterprise-level and AI computing platforms. Its all-metal construction, highly reliable tray mechanism, hot-swap capability, and multi-interface compatibility provide superior storage technology support for AI model deployment.

Core Product Advantages:

• ST9314U4: Supports 4x U.2/U.3 NVMe SSDs, delivering up to 64 Gbps bandwidth via a single PCIe x16 lane.

• Removable Drive Tray Replacement: Enables swapping of training data or updating weights without interrupting system operation.

• Exceptional Thermal Performance: Equipped with active cooling fans and a metal chassis, ensuring prolonged stable operation even under high-load training environments.

UNESTECH Hard Drive Mobile Rack Solution and Demonstrated Outcomes

• Breaking Load Bottlenecks with Extreme Bandwidth: Deploying a 6-bay PCIe 4.0 NVMe mobile rack solution leverages the high-speed transfer characteristics of the PCIe 4.0 bus. A single carrier backplane can provide peak bandwidth of 64 Gbps (8 GB/s), coupled with the low-latency advantages of NVMe SSDs. This configuration reduced the load time for a 200TB dataset from 6 hours to 40 minutes—an 89% improvement in load efficiency—lowering the data wait time proportion in simulation workflows to below 5%.

• Resolving I/O Contention with Zoned Storage: Assigning independent hard drive tray for each parameter set (e.g., climate, ocean, ecology) based on model type, and utilizing PCIe lane bifurcation technology to enable parallel read/write operations across multiple trays, increased the system's overall IOPS by 4 times. Computing task queue times were shortened from over 2 hours to less than 24 minutes, allowing multiple teams to conduct simulation calculations for different projects simultaneously and improving collaboration efficiency by 75%.

• Ensuring Continuous Computation with Hot-Swap Expansion: Utilizing the native hot-swap functionality of the mobile rack enclosure, adding new storage can be performed without downtime. Pre-configured drive trays are inserted directly, and dynamic capacity expansion is handled by the RAID controller, a process taking only about 5 minutes. This increased the cluster's annual effective utilization rate from 65% to 92%, adding approximately 1200 hours of valuable computation time per year—equivalent to completing simulation tasks for 8-10 additional projects ahead of schedule.

• Safeguarding Research Data with Hardware Redundancy: The mobile rack enclosure feature built-in hardware RAID 0+1 functionality. This "striping + mirroring" combination retains the high-speed read/write performance of RAID 0 while providing data redundancy through dual-drive mirroring. Practical tests confirmed that this configuration enhances the reliability of critical research data to 99.999%, effectively eliminating the risk of data loss due to hard drive failure during simulations.