We’ve written beforehand about Solidigm’s D5-P5336, a PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD with a capability of 61.44TB, however the drive – the world’s largest SSD so far – is lastly up for pre-sale.
The D5-P5336 is the primary quad-level cell (QLC) solid-state storage drive and comes out there within the E1L and U.2 codecs, in style in knowledge facilities. They don’t seem to be typically discovered ultimately person market, however somebody added it to Valve’s Steam Deck so do not rule the thought out of constructing your individual customized U.2-friendly workstation!
This drive permits for as much as six occasions extra knowledge storage in the identical area in comparison with a tough disk drive (HDD) array. Many workstation motherboards have two U.2 ports, which implies that professionals with deep pockets may have a pair of 61.44TB P5336 working of their pedestal PCs as secondary storage drives.
Now out there to preorder
The D5-P5336 is designed to deal with huge quantities of knowledge from the core to the sting, outperforming many cost-optimized triple-level cell (TLC) SSDs. It is notably suited to read-intensive workloads like AI, machine studying, content material supply networks, and object storage.
When the corporate first introduced the drive, Greg Matson, VP of Strategic Planning and Advertising and marketing at Solidigm mentioned “Fashionable workloads like AI and capabilities like 5G are quickly reshaping the storage panorama. Companies want storage in additional locations that’s cheap, capable of retailer huge knowledge units effectively and entry the information at pace. The D5-P5336 delivers on all three — worth, density and efficiency. With QLC, the economics are compelling — think about storing 6X extra knowledge than HDDs and 2X extra knowledge than TLC SSDs, all in the identical area at TLC pace.”
Assuming you’re available in the market for one in all these whopping 61.44TB drives, you’re little doubt concerned with figuring out how a lot they’ll set you again. Effectively, whereas they aren’t at present that can be purchased they’ll now lastly be pre-ordered for $3,975.16 from PCNation, and $3,692.00 from Tech-America. The precise delivery date is unknown, however Solidigm says “later this yr”.
