- SOLIDEM’S Monster 122.88TB D5-P5336 SSD is now officially available
- It is designed to meet Modern Hyperscale -Datain Frastructure requirements
- The original estimates suggested $ 14,000 but you can order it for “just” $ 12,399
Originally announced in November 2024, 122.88TB model of the Solidents D5-P5336 SSD has officially been on sale.
If you’ve ever speculated how much one of these Giant capacity SSDs might be putting you back, the answer is: Maybe not as much as you would expect, even though the early estimates placed its price close to $ 14,000, but you can actually pick up the drive from Tech-American for a much more affordable $ 12,399.
Obviously, this is not a drive for your typical PC rich -it uses a PCIE 4.0 interface and comes in U.2 (available now) and E1.L (expected later in the year) Form factors. It is aimed at company storage environments that handle large -scale AI, machine learning and data -intensive workload.
Longer lasting QLC
The drive is built with 192-layer QLC NAND. With endurance classified for 0.60 drives, writes per day, and a total of 134.3 petabytes written over five years, the 122.88TB model is designed to last longer than previous QLC offers.
Solidigm, a US-based subsidiary of SK Hynix, allegedly tested driven under extreme conditions. Driving 32 KB of random writing with full load, the drive operated continuously for five years and retained about 5 percent of his life.
Performance requirements include up to 930,000 IOPS for 4K random readings and 7.4 Gbps for sequential readings.
Solidigm markets its large SSD as a solution to space and power limitations in data centers and claims that replacing traditional hybrid systems with its all-QLC drive could reduce rack consumption from nine to one and reduce power consumption by approx. 90 percent.
The drive joins other high capacity SSDs announced in 2024, including models from Phison, Samsung and Western Digital. Phison’s SSD supports PCIe Gen5 and offers faster top flow, although the D5-P5336 delivers a higher endurance assessment and greater storage density.
