Solidigm has announced a new solid-state drive model in the D5-P5336 family – the capacity of the new product is an impressive 122.88 TB. The SSD will hit the market first in the U.2 form factor, followed by the 9.5 mm E1.L format option. The new product is aimed at use in servers.
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The company has previously released D5-P5336 drives, but until now the most capacious of them had a capacity of 61.44 TB. The new 122.88 TB variant retains all the features of the previous ones, including support for PCIe 4.0 and NVMe 2.0, as well as consumption of less than 5 W in standby mode. PCIe 4.0 isn’t the latest generation standard, but that doesn’t mean this SSD is slow, with sequential read speeds of up to 7,400 MB/s and random read speeds of up to 930,000 IOPS.
The disk is highly durable, Solidigm claims, with a service life of 134.3 PBW. This means that the drive can be operated 24/7, randomly writing in 32KB blocks for five consecutive years, and will still have 5% of its life remaining at the end of that period. The company has already begun sending samples of new SSDs in the U.2 form factor to customers, and full-scale deliveries will start in the first quarter of next year; At the beginning of next year, we will begin distributing images of the E1.L 9.5 mm drive with deliveries in the second quarter. Prices for Solidigm D5-P5336 with a capacity of 122.88 TB have not been specified.