The Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB is neat for two big reasons. First, it is a hugely high-capacity drive at 122.88TB. Second, it is effectively the end of write endurance metrics on high-capacity drives, but for a fun reason. In our review, we are going to take a look at the drive, the performance, and then get into some of the big “key lessons learned” of the device.
Some readers may note, that we have looked at the D5-P5336 before in the Solidigm D5-P5336 61.44TB SSD Review Hard Drives Lost piece. It is right to think of this as a faster version of that drive so here is the video for it as well.
Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB Overview
The Solidigm D5-P5336 122.88TB we are looking at is a 2.5″ U.2 design that will fit into most servers. Physically the exterior casing is what we saw with the 61.44TB version which makes sense.
While many SSDs have heatsink fins as part of their casing, this does not.
On one end, we have our power and data connections.
Here is the other side.
As a quick refresher on the specs, this is designed to be a high-capacity drive, not necessarily the fastest out there. It uses 192-layer QLC NAND and is sub 1 million read IOPS and just over 25K random write IOPS, but at 32K, not 4K as we would normally see. It is also only a PCIe Gen4 drive. The endurance is rated at 0.6DWPD for 5 years, which is silly. That is 134.3PBW or you can write 73TB of data randomly to the drive every day for 5-years.
Now, we have had the chance to look at one in a hands-on review. Let us get to that next.
I personally would like to state that I LOVE the side-by-side shots of the small/large runs of the benchmarks!
Please keep it up. Heck, please remove the individual shots to save some copy and just standardize how you show the side-by-sides. (I.e. always smaller run on the left for example.)
Saving time scrolling, and being able to quickly address any differences between the runs in a single paragraph seems like a win for your readers, without losing any functional content!