A Cadence of Advancement Continues With the Solidigm 122TB D5-P5336 Drive Introduction

The AI era is placing incredible demand on data pipelines from the data center to the edge, and at Solidigm we’ve watched a sea change in storage capacity requirements as IT organizations keep pace with feeding compute demand. That’s why we were so thrilled to deliver our latest QLC NAND based advancement to the market with the 122TB Solidigm D5-P5336 drive. This drive is a first-of-its-kind SSD, featuring a massive advancement in capacity, endurance, reliability, and performance perfectly aligned with customer requirements. Our new drives are inspiring new use cases across technical computing applications, media capture and transcode, AI, and other data intensive workloads.

The achievement of 122TB drive capacity is founded on Solidigm’s firm commitment to QLC, or quad-level cell, technology dating back to our introduction of the first data center QLC drive in 2018, clocking in at a whopping 7.68TB. Even back then, we were firm believers that migration of data storage to solid state would be predicated on driving performance and capacity with QLC technology. Since then, Solidigm has led the industry in QLC advancement, delivering the highest capacity drives to the marketplace. We’ve also seen data-intensive computing shift with the advent of artificial intelligence (AI), placing a premium on dense data storage capability to fuel AI data collection, training, fine tuning, and inference. 

Who will be using this capacity? From global hyper-scalers to top OEMs to leading storage innovators to edge solution providers to the distribution channel, the industry at large is realizing value in hyper-dense storage. We were delighted to be joined onstage at our 122TB D5-P5336 launch by a strong cross-section of industry leaders including Arm, CoreWeave, Ocient, PEAK AIO, and VAST Data. These companies represent real-world applications and provide perspectives on how the new drive will be tapped for a variety of use cases.

Arm: Chloe Jian Ma, Arm Vice President of China go-to-market and IoT line of business, was on hand to provide her perspective. This advancement in QLC capacity provides her customers an opportunity to drive more efficiency from the data center to the edge. Arm, known for power sipping compute, sees opportunity in the hyperscale arena where the largest cloud service providers are looking for ways to carve out energy use to make space for accelerated computing.

CoreWeave: Jacob Yundt, Director of Compute Architecture at CoreWeave, shared his vision for AI-optimized cloud service delivery and how his company has tapped QLC NAND as a strategic component for CoreWeave’s data pipeline. CoreWeave’s capacity keeps scaling based on customer demand for AI training clusters fed by SSD storage.

Ocient: Sophie Kane, Director of Growth Marketing at Ocient, described her company as delivering always-on workload management for compute-intensive computations. Ocient works closely with customers to bring compute and storage in tighter alignment to drive improved performance and compute efficiency. One of the secret weapons in Ocient’s toolbox is reliance on power-sipping QLC NAND based SSDs. Sophie discussed a deep collaboration with Solidigm to deliver this capability to customers extending into future deployment of 122TB SSD technology. 

PEAK AIO: Roger Cummings, CEO of PEAK AIO, shared his vision for driving higher data density from the data center to the edge. While the company has a heritage in the HPC arena, massive growth is being driven on edge implementations where a mix of performance, low latency network, and efficient storage deliver to customer requirements. 

VAST Data: Renen Hallak, founder and CEO of VAST Data, shared his company’s pursuit of an insight engine combining data platform management with unification of data sources to speed AI training across cloud and enterprise environments. Customers have noticed, with companies like X.AI, Harvard Medical School, and CoreWeave tapping VAST’s data platforms to deliver the capacity and performance required to fuel their applications. Renen shared that this latest milestone of 122TB SSDs represents the catalyst for data centers to move to fully-SSD environments, placing spinning disks firmly in the rearview mirror.

While capacity and performance efficiency have garnered the headlines from our launch of the 122TB D5-P5336 SSD, the Solidigm team is also proud of the advancements in reliability that we’ve brought to the QLC product line, giving customers more peace of mind regarding longevity of deployment of the solutions. With volume deployments arriving early next year, we expect the market to quickly adopt these products for a wide array of data-intensive environments and we cannot wait to hear more about how customers put these products to the test. For more information, please visit our QLC D5 Series page.