Solidigm Commemorates the World’s Highest Capacity PCIe SSD with 122 Day

Solidigm, a leading provider of innovative NAND flash memory solutions, recently introduced the world’s highest capacity PCIe solid-state drive (SSD): the Solidigm™ D5-P5336 122.88TB. Doubling the storage space of Solidigm’s earlier 61.44TB version of the drive within the same footprint, the 122.88TB SSD from Solidigm offers an ideal solution for AI and data-intensive workloads and delivers industry-leading storage efficiency from the core data center to the edge. 

To celebrate the decades of innovation that led to this engineering feat, Solidigm is commemorating 122 Day on Jan. 22 with team members and the technology community, including the Greater Sacramento Economic Council. In addition to the City of Rancho Cordova where Solidigm is headquartered proclaiming the day as 122 Day, the company also created a custom LEGO replica kit of the newest Quad-Level Cell (QLC) Solidigm SSD. 

Illustrating what it’s like to hold 122.88TB of capacity in the palm of your hand, the replica kit reinforces why it’s critical to make every watt and square inch count. 

“Solidigm has been at the forefront of storage innovation for decades, and our latest D5-P5336 drive enables more efficient and more scalable data center and edge designs, helping data center architects solve their power and space efficiency problems,” said Xin Guo, Senior Vice President, Head of Data Center Engineering, Solidigm. “We applaud our engineering teams for their tireless work and innovation on this drive that powerfully complements our QLC portfolio and makes an impact in data center operations for years to come.” 

But just exactly how much storage is 122.88TB? Coming in at approximately the size of a deck of cards, the new Solidigm drive has enough capacity to hold The Beatles’ entire song catalog, more than 144 thousand times.  

Designed by QLC pioneers, these modern-day high density QLC drives have proven leadership and can be deployed in confidence – performing up to 15 percent better on data intensive workloads.  

The new Solidigm drives also store more data in a smaller footprint, enabling more efficient and more scalable data centers. 

“As AI models become more sophisticated, growing energy demands must be addressed if we are going to fully harness the potential of AI,” said Chloe Ma, VP China GTM and IoT Line of Business, Arm. “A holistic approach encompassing compute, storage and networking is key to optimizing infrastructure for AI workloads, and the pervasive Arm compute platform is enabling this from cloud to edge. Solidigm’s new 122TB storage solution, powered by Arm’s high-performance, power-efficient technology, will help tackle these power challenges, delivering more efficient and scalable data center designs.” 

By storing more data in less space, Solidigm’s ultra-dense 122.88TB drives reduce the need for multiple HDDs, resulting in:  

• 90% less power for AI storage solutions¹ 
  
• Smaller data center footprints¹
• Reduced cooling costs¹
• Less e-waste at end-of-life¹
• Improved power density at the edge² 
• Up to 4 petabytes of storage per one rack unit³

For more information on how Solidigm D5-P5336 drives can help you power data center workloads, visit our website. 

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Footnote

Some results have been estimated or simulated using internal Solidigm analysis or architecture simulation or modeling and provided to you for information purposes only. Any differences in your system hardware, software or configuration may affect your actual performance. 

¹ Power/space/e-waste analysis assumes a green field (new) bottom-range hyper-scaler / Tier 2 AI data center implementation utilizing leading-edge power and space optimizations, comparing Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB QLC SSD versus 30TB HDD deployments.   

² Improved power density based on Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88 Terabytes per Watt capability. 

³ 4PB per rack unit based on a 1U server comprised of 32 E1.L SSDs at 122.88TB each.