Dell Technologies Doubles Storage Density for AI Workloads with Assist from Solidigm™ 122TB SSDs

Solidigm™ D5-P5336 122 terabyte (TB) solid-state drives (SSDs), introduced in late 2024, offer astronomical capacity, enabling customers to access almost 6 petabytes (PBs) of storage per node¹ and greatly minimize hardware requirements, operational expenses, and energy consumption. Dell Technologies announced today that Dell PowerScale systems are now offering Solidigm 122TB SSDs alongside the latest OneFS software innovation. 

Dell is the first infrastructure provider to offer a storage system with 122TB SSDs. PowerScale’s recent updates address key issues related to storage capacity, cost-effectiveness, energy consumption, and system adaptability — helping businesses thrive in a data-centric environment. 

The latest innovative SSD from Solidigm, the Solidigm D5-P5336 122TB drive embodies high-density innovation at its core. Every design element was carefully refined to maximize storage density while minimizing both power consumption and physical space, creating the most densely packed and efficient SSD on the market. Comparing this to standard storage devices, that’s more than 5x the space of the highest capacity hard drive.  

Solidigm has been one of PowerScale's SSD providers since introducing its first high capacity QLC-based SSD in July 2022, and since then, doubling PowerScale system density twice, from ~1.5PB per node to ~3PB per node with the introduction of the Solidigm D5-P5336 61TB drive in 2024, and again doubling PowerScale's density from ~3PB per node to ~6PB per node with the shipping of the Solidigm D5-P5336 122TB in 2025. This results in much improved power, performance, cooling and footprint efficiencies that enable the eco-conscious data centers of tomorrow. 

“The AI opportunity requires organizations today to make  critical decisions regarding infrastructure power and space . Dell Technologies believes that higher density provides the path to maximizing storage energy efficiency while minimizing data center footprint,” said Travis Vigil, SVP, ISG Product Management, Dell Technologies. “As we increase density in our own solutions, we look forward to continued storage innovations like Solidigm’s new 122TB D5-P5336 solid-state drive.” 

With the rapid rise of AI applications, data is exploding and organizations must keep up with the ever-changing environment. Dell’s advantage lies in its adaptable infrastructure, with leading distributed file and object storage purpose-built for the most demanding AI workloads. PowerScale is the bedrock of modern data centers and drives innovation for enterprises and hyperscalers alike. Together with Solidigm 122TB SSDs, organizations can focus on delivering AI innovations, instead of worrying about where they are storing their data and take advantage of the drive’s unlimited 5-year endurance. 

“Data is the fuel of the AI engine and storage needs are increasing,” said Greg Matson, SVP, Strategic Planning & Marketing, Solidigm. “In some instances, we’re seeing that storage can consume in the range of 30 percent of operational power.² The power and space efficiency of our 122TB SSDs helps enable Dell PowerScale to deliver massive infrastructure efficiency gains.”

The future of AI is now. Don’t get left behind. Learn more about Solidigm 122TB SSDs here, and visit the PowerScale website to see what Dell can do for your organization. 

¹Source: Dell. Based on effective capacity analysis considering data reduction on an appropriately configured cluster with 122TB SSDs (Releasing May 28th, 2025). PowerScale also guarantees a 2:1 Data reduction ratio, See terms and conditions for details at: dr-guarantee-tc-powerscale.pdf (delltechnologies.com). Actual data reduction rates will vary.  

²Source: Solidigm and industry sources including Meta-Stanford paper Understanding Data Storage and Ingestion for Large-Scale Deep Recommendation Model Training. 

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