- Solidigm’s 61.44 TB SSD offers a lower cost per TB than any other larger drive
- Buying in bulk reduces the price of 614 TB of storage to less than $95 per TB
- The QLC Gen4 design offers massive capacity at a better price/performance ratio than conventional SSDs
Large PCIe Gen4 SSDs can be incredibly expensive, but we’ve found a model where the amount of storage you get for your money is better than any other model in its class.
The currently available 61.44 TB Solidigm D5-P5336 ultimately offers the best price per TB you can get for an SSD larger than 16 TB.
The D5-P5336 uses QLC memory and a PCIe Gen4 x4 interface and is available in the 9.5mm E1.L form factor, which is used in high-density servers. It’s not designed for home desktops, but the amount of storage makes it worthwhile anywhere you need a high-capacity SSD.
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The 61.44TB model is the cheapest option in the range, with smaller versions offering less storage at a higher cost per TB.
If you look at the numbers, the prices are surprisingly close to the price of consumer SSDs.
This is usually a typical 2TB drive, and while this business model is generally more expensive, the difference per TB is not very large. Larger SSDs generally cost a lot more, so the price here is a bargain.
To get the best value for money, you should buy the device in bulk. In practice, this means buying ten drives totaling 614TB, bringing the total cost to over $58,300, but lowering the cost per terabyte to a level that nothing else in this capacity class can match.
At this scale, the price drops to less than $95 per TB, making it currently the cheapest way to buy high-capacity PCIe Gen4 SSD storage.
Although the form factor limits installation space, the D5-P5336 offers a practical option for environments that require extremely large SSD storage without paying much higher enterprise prices.