- The price of Solidigm’s monster 122.88TB SSD has increased by almost 200% in just nine months
- The unit was originally listed at $12,399 and now costs $37,128 at Tech-America
- The U.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD is designed for enterprise servers, storage arrays, and cloud data centers.
Originally announced in November 2024, Solidigm’s 122.88TB D5-P5336 SSD officially went on sale in May 2025.
Early estimates had suggested it would sell for around $14,000, but as we reported, the business unit became available through Tech-America for “just” $12,399, seriously undermining market expectations.
However, fast forward to now, Tech-America is selling the exact same unit for $37,128, an increase of close to 200%. This is a big jump in about nine months. Sure, there are discount prices available, but buy more than 100 monster SSDs and you’ll still only save $853 per unit.
$302 per terabyte
The D5-P5336 in question is a 2.5-inch U.2 SSD using PCIe 4.0 x4, designed for servers, storage arrays, cloud storage, and data centers. It packs 122.88TB into a 15mm chassis that weighs around 5.87oz.
Sequential performance is rated at up to 6.84 GB/s read and 2.93 GB/s write. 4KB random reads reach 900,000 IOPS, while random writes reach 19,000 IOPS, targeting read-intensive workloads.
Endurance is set at 0.6 writes to the drive per day, with a total bytes written of 137523.20 TB. The mean time between failures is estimated at 228.2 years (a statistical projection rather than a literal useful life).
The unit has a five-year warranty and connects via U.2, a common interface in enterprise racks although absent in most consumer systems.
Regarding the price swing, several factors could be at play. Ultra-high-capacity NAND is not produced at the same scale as conventional flash memory, and supply can quickly shrink if hyperscale customers place large orders.
Pricing for enterprise SSDs also typically revolves around contracts rather than public listings. Retail figures may reflect limited stock, dealer adjustments, or even corrections to previous prices.
At $37,128, the cost per terabyte now sits at approximately $302. That’s well above what most buyers are used to seeing, even in enterprise storage.
High-capacity consumer NVMe drives typically cost between $40 and $80 per TB. Many enterprise SSDs in the 7.68TB to 30.72TB range can cost less than $150 per TB when purchased in volume.
Per terabyte, Solidigm’s monstrous SSD it now costs two to six times the cost of smaller alternatives.
At its previous listing of $12,399 in May 2025, the price per TB was around $101, much closer to the conventional enterprise flash price and arguably easier for buyers to justify.
That comparison isn’t perfect, of course. A 122.88TB SSD enables much higher storage density in a single 2.5-inch U.2 slot, which can reduce the number of drives, ports, and cables required in a rack.
For operators limited by space or power budgets, that consolidation offers real value.
Still, the jump from about $101 to about $302 per TB changes the economics enormously. Buyers not only pay for flash capacity, they also pay a huge premium to package it into a single device.
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