Solidigm recently shipped a new solid-state drive (SSD) featuring 122.88TB of storage capacity, the world’s largest SSD, with enough storage to pack 4PB of data into a 1U rack. In honor of that massive feat of data, the company is rolling out the stops to celebrate today as “122 Day,” and even the company’s hometown of Rancho Cordova, California, is getting in on the act.
Solidigm’s big new drive, which it first rolled out in November, is the latest variant of the D5-P5336 line, a data center SSD that uses the latest Quad-Level Cell (QLC) storage technology. The space-saving design delivers an enormous amount of fast storage capacity in a package that’s 72% smaller than a typical 30TB hard drive.
That space savings also helps on the power side of the equation. Solidigm says the D5-P5336 consumes 84% less energy than a comparable HDD plus triple level cell (TLC) hybrid setup, and offers 3.4 times more terabytes per watt versus 30TB TLC. The power efficiency and density enables partners like VAST Data to pack 2PB into a 1U chassis using the 61.44TB variant of the D5-P5336, a figure that will likely to double with the 122TB drive.
The City of Rancho Cordova proclaimed today as “122 Day” in honor of city resident Solidigm’s new 122TB SSD
Performance-wise, the D5-P5336 can read at rates up to 7,400MB per second (sequential) and write data at speeds up to 3,000 MB/s (sequential), making the drive useful for the most demanding analytics, AI, and edge use cases. Only the company’s high-end D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030 series, which utilize the faster charge trap technology and PCIe 5.0 connections (compared to floating gate technology and PCIe 4.0 with the D5-P5336 series) are faster in Solidigm’s lineup, topping out at 14,500 MB/s reads and 4,100 MB/s writes.
The delivery of a big, fast, and efficient SSD is cause for celebration on the Solidigm campus. In advance of the day, the company mailed out Lego replicas of the drives. The Greater Sacramento Economic Council got in on the action, and the City of Rancho Cordova even proclaimed today as “122 Day.”
All the hoopla doesn’t take away from the engineering accomplishment of Solidigm, which was created in 2021 when Intel sold its NAND and SSD business to the South Korean semiconductor company Sk Hynix for $9 billion. Xin Guo, the company’s senior vice president and head of data center engineering, said the delivery of a 122TB SSD is the result of years of hard work.
“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,” Guo said in a press release. “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.”
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