- Solidigm’s 61.44TB SSD offers a lower cost per TB than any other large drive
- Bulk purchases bring the price down from $95 per TB for 614TB of storage
- QLC Gen4 design provides huge capacity at better value than usual for SSDs
Large PCIe Gen4 SSDs are often incredibly 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 TB you can get for any SSD larger than 16TB.
The D5-P5336 uses QLC memory and a PCIe Gen4 x4 interface and comes in the 9.5mm E1.L form factor that appears in high-density servers. It’s not designed for home desktops, but the large amount of storage makes it interesting for anywhere big solid-state capacity is needed.
Ten please!
The 61.44TB model is the best value option in the range, with smaller versions offering less storage for a higher cost per TB.
Once you look at the numbers, the price is surprisingly close to that of everyday consumer SSDs.
A typical 2TB drive often costs around $80 per TB, and while this business model is more expensive overall, the gap per TB isn’t especially wide. Large SSDs typically cost much more, so the price here is a bargain.
To get the best value, you should purchase the unit in bulk. In practice, that means purchasing ten drives for a total of 614TB, which brings the total cost above $58,300 but reduces the cost per terabyte to a level that nothing else in this capacity class can match.
At that scale, the price drops to less than $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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