New storage mark: 122 TByte in one SSD

Solidigm presented its 61 TByte SSD in the summer of 2023, and the D5-P5336 has been available for a few weeks now. Now comes the next leap in capacity to 122.88 TByte. The controller manufacturer Phison has also presented an SSD with this capacity, which is even significantly faster thanks to PCIe 5.0.

Solidigm's 122-TByte SSD is being launched on the market under the type designation D5-P5336, just with double the capacity. The key data: QLC flash with PCIe 4.0 x4 and NVMe 2.0, the possible housing forms are 2.5-inch with U.2 connection as well as the EDSFF versions E3.S in 7.5 millimeters thickness and E1.L in 9.5 millimeters. The 122 TByte version should be available at the beginning of 2025.

122 TByte with PCIe 5.0

Phison is primarily known to many as a manufacturer of SSD controllers, but also has its own SSD production facility – Many SSD manufacturers from the consumer sector have their SSDs built there. Phison's enterprise SSD series with its own Pascari controller, which is particularly suitable for training large AI models, is also little known.

Phison is now presenting an SSD that is also 122.88 TByte in size: The D205V also uses QLC flash, but unlike the Solidgm SSD, it is significantly faster thanks to PCIe 5.0: Phison specifies 14.6 GByte/s, and 3.2 GByte/s when writing. When accessing random addresses, Phison promises 3 million IOPS when reading; there is no information on 4k write IOPS.

The D205V should be available in the U.2 and E3.L versions at the beginning of the second quarter of 2025. Prices are unknown.

Not the first announcement

In the summer of this year, both Samsung and Western Digital had already announced the development of SSDs with a capacity of 122 and 128 TByte respectively, but no further details were available at the time. Since then, it has been quiet around these SSDs and no more recent information is available.

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