- Solidigm’s 61.44 TB SSD offers lower cost per TB than any other large drive
- Bulk purchases push the price down to under $95 per TB for 614 TB of storage space
- QLC Gen4 design provides massive capacity with better value than usual for SSDs
Large PCIe Gen4 SSDs are usually eye-wateringly expensive, but we’ve found a model where the amount of storage you get for the money is better than anything else in its class.
The 61.44TB Solidigm D5-P5336, currently on sale for $5,829.99 on Newegg, ends up offering the best price per unit. TB you can get for any SSD above 16 TB.
The D5-P5336 uses QLC memory and a PCIe Gen4 x4 interface and comes in the E1.L 9.5mm form factor seen in high-density servers. It’s not intended for home desktops, but the large amount of storage space makes it interesting anywhere large solid state capacity is needed.
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The 61.44 TB model is the best value option in the range, with smaller versions offering less storage at a higher cost per unit. TB.
When you look at the numbers, the pricing is surprisingly close to everyday consumer SSDs.
A typical 2TB drive often costs around $80 per TB, and although this business model is more expensive overall, the difference per TB not very big. Large SSDs usually cost much more, so the price here is a bargain.
To get the best value, buy the drive in bulk. In practice, this means buying ten units for a total of 614TB, which pushes the total cost to over $58,300, but brings the cost per terabytes down to a level that nothing else in this capacity class can match.
At that scale, the price drops below $95 per TB, making it the cheapest way to buy high-capacity PCIe Gen4 SSD storage right now.
The form factor limits where it can be installed, of course, but the D5-P5336 is a practical option for environments that need extremely large SSD storage without paying much higher enterprise prices.
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