- SSD 122.88TB of Solidigm is efficient, dense and now for sale
- The first review confirms strong performance in the use of business storage of reading.
- Csal Tech eliminates the inconveniences of Flash QLC for a practical high capacity implementation
The SSD Enterprise Enterprise 122.88TB D5-P5336 of Solidigm was announced in November 2024 and just went on sale, with a price of $ 12,399, less than $ 14,000 analysts were predicting.
Now the first complete review of the 122.88TB of Soldigm has arrived, and according to Jon Coulter, senior hardware editor of TweaktownThe best SSD more than is at the height of exaggeration, not only on scale, but in performance, efficiency and practical deployment.
As coulter writes, “in business scenarios where the capacity is the king, the SSD D5-P5336 122.88TB of Soldigm Supreme Reina.”
Advantages that change the game
The unit, based on QLC NAND, is described as the high capacity SSD most efficient currently in circulation. It offers an unprecedented storage density, allowing the data centers to store up to 4 petabytes per fingerprint of the 1U server. That matters more than ever in an era in which the data sets of AI models are doubled every eight months.
Tweaktown Notes that the consolidigm is at the forefront of the development of FLC Flash and points out that many of the usual disadvantages of QLC, such as the resistance and the writing performance, are addressed both by the size of the disc and by the CSAL technology (Caching SSD acceleration technology).
Coulter explains: “As we see, with the increase in CSAL, all the inconveniences inherent to the QLC matrices are completely erased and you only have advantages of game change. Incredible.”
The D5-P5336 reached 7,481 mb/s in sequential readings and 947,000 IAP in random readings 4K during the tests, both exceeding the manufacturer’s specifications. “The factory specification here is up to 900k IAP in QD256. We are obtaining 947k IOP in QD256 with our configuration,” says Coulter.
In practice, this level of performance is intended for high volume and reading storage levels, not rapid rhythm transactional systems. As Coulter points out, “the workloads of this nature will rarely find themselves, if ever, they will be found in the role that the QLC SSD plays at the storage level. The results must be taken here with a grain of salt.”
In summary, he concludes: “Because it offers as it is announced and then some, it is easily available, supremely efficient, offers a lot of performance for its planned roles, and is backed by a 5-year PBW guarantee. 122.888TB D5-5336 of 134 PBW.”
