- Solidigm’s 61.44TB SSD offers a lower cost per TB than any other large drive
- Bulk purchases drop price below $95 per TB for 614 TB of storage
- QLC Gen4 design delivers huge capacity with better value than usual for SSDs
Large PCIe Gen4 SSDs are generally extremely expensive, but we found one model where the amount of storage you get for your money is better than any other model in its class.
The 61.44TB Solidigm D5-P5336, currently on sale for $5,829.99 on Newegg, ends up offering the best price per TB you can get for any SSD over 16TB.
The D5-P5336 uses QLC memory and a PCIe Gen4 x4 interface and comes in the 9.5mm E1.L form factor that appears in high-density servers. It’s not intended for home desktops, but the amount of storage makes it worth it anywhere large SSD capacity is needed.
Ten please!
The 61.44TB model is the most economical option in the range, with smaller versions offering less storage for a higher cost per TB.
Once you look at the numbers, the price becomes surprisingly close to that of consumer SSDs.
A typical 2TB drive often costs around $80 per TB, and while this business model is more expensive overall, the per TB gap isn’t particularly wide. Larger SSDs normally cost a lot more, so the price here is a bargain.
To get the best value for your money, you should buy the disc in bulk. In practice, that means buying ten units for a total of 614TB, which pushes the overall cost above $58,300 but brings the cost per terabyte down 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.
The form factor limits where it can be installed, of course, but the D5-P5336 is a practical option for environments that need extremely large SSD storage without paying much higher enterprise prices.
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