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World's highest-capacity SSD sees retail price hikes -- Solidigm 61.44TB SSD pricing nearly doubles

Solidigm's 61.44TB SSD now costs over $7,000, up from around $4,000 earlier this year.

Tom’s Hardware

Price of world's largest SSD has nearly doubled since launch - could extreme demand for AI servers and training be behind shocking price tag of Solidigm's 61.44TB SSD?

The price of the world's largest SSD has skyrocketed likely due to demand for AI servers

TechRadar

DapuStor and Memblaze Target Global Expansion with State-of-the-Art Enterprise SSDs

The growth in the enterprise SSD (eSSD) market has outpaced that of the client SSD market over the last few years. The requirements of AI servers for both training and inference has been the major impetus in this front. In addition to the usual vendors like Samsung, Solidigm, Micron, Kioxia,…

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Phison Enterprise SSDs at FMS 2024: Pascari Branding and Accelerating AI

At FMS 2024, Phison devoted significant booth space to their enterprise / datacenter SSD and PCIe retimer solutions, in addition to their consumer products. As a controller / silicon vendor, Phison had historically been working with drive partners to bring their solutions to the market. On the enterprise side, their…

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Samsung's 128 TB-Class BM1743 Enterprise SSD Displayed at FMS 2024

Samsung had quietly launched its BM1743 enterprise QLC SSD last month with a hefty 61.44 TB SKU. At FMS 2024, the company had the even larger 122.88 TB version of that SSD on display, alongside a few recorded benchmarking sessions. Compared to the previous generation, the BM1743 comes with a…

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Silicon Motion Demonstrates Flexible Data Placement on MonTitan Gen 5 Enterprise SSD Platform

At FMS 2024, the technological requirements from the storage and memory subsystem took center stage. Both SSD and controller vendors had various demonstrations touting their suitability for different stages of the AI data pipeline - ingestion, preparation, training, checkpointing, and inference. Vendors like Solidigm have different types of SSDs optimized…

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Microchip Demonstrates Flashtec 5016 Enterprise SSD Controller

Microchip recently announced the availability of their second PCIe Gen 5 enterprise SSD controller - the Flashtec 5016. Like the 4016, this is also a 16-channel controller, but there are some key updates: PCIe 5.0 lane organization: Operation in x4 or dual independent x2 / x2 mode in the 5016,…

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Solidigm 122 TB Enterprise QLC SSD Announced for Early 2025 Release

Solidigm's D5-P5336 61.44 TB enterprise QLC SSD released in mid-2023 has seen unprecedented demand over the last few quarters, driven by the insatiable demand for high-capacity storage in AI datacenters. Multiple vendors have recognized and started preparing products to service this demand, but Solidigm appears to have taken the lead…

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Western Digital Teases 128 TB Enterprise SSD: BiCS8 3D QLC for AI Workloads

A week after Western Digital confirmed that it had begun sampling of its 64 TB SSDs for datacenters, the company has teased its next-generation product, a 128 TB solid-state drive at FMS 2024. For now, all we know about Western Digital's 128 TB SSD is that it uses the company's…

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Solidigm D7-PS1010 and D7-PS1030: PCIe 5.0 and 176L TLC Datacenter SSD Performance Play

Solidigm's datacenter SSD lineup includes models targeting different performance, endurance, and cost tradeoffs. Last year, the company had introduced the D5-P5336 QLC drive as a low-cost high-capacity drive for read-heavy workloads, while also preparing the SLC-based D7-P5810 for extremely write-intensive workloads requiring high endurance. The D7-P5520 / D7-P5620 Gen 4…

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SK hynix to Enter 60 TB SSD Club Next Quarter

SK hynix this week reported its financial results for the second quarter, as well as offering a glimpse at its plans for the coming quarters. Notably among the company's plans for the year is the release of a SK hynix-branded 60 TB SSD, which will mark the firm's entry into…

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Samsung hints at 122.88TB SSD as it quietly releases a 61.44TB model — world's largest NAND maker finally competes with Solidigm for top capacity crown, but you won't be able to use these in your PC

Samsung's new data center SSD will be available in 61.44TB capacity, with potential to scale up to 122.88TB.

TechRadar

They did it again: Tech publisher keeps on breaking Pi Calculation World Record — they almost doubled the previous one, reaching 202 trillion digits in 100 days and used 1.5PB of SSD storage

Engineers took 100 days to calculate Pi to 202 trillion digits using some very powerful hardware.

TechRadar

Samsung Joins The 60 TB SSD Club, Looking Forward To 120 TB Drives

Multiple companies offer high-capacity SSDs, but until recently, only one company offered high-performance 60 TB-class drives with a PCIe interface: Solidigm. As our colleagues from Blocks & Files discovered, Samsung quietly rolled out its BM1743 61.44 TB solid-state drive in mid-June and now envisions 120 TB-class SSDs based on the…

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2PB SSD storage in your computer? Why not — storage firm debuts tech that can support up to 32 drives, perfect if you want to use 61.44TB Solidigm SSDs or even bigger PCIe 5.0 ones in the future

HighPoint has new 8-Channel PCIe Gen5 x16 NVMe Switch and RAID products that can support up to 32 SSDs.

LiveScience

Pi calculated to 105 trillion digits, smashing world record

A U.S. computer storage company has calculated the irrational number pi to 105 trillion digits, breaking the previous world record. The calculations took 75 days to complete and used up 1 million gigabytes of data.

Tom’s Hardware

NAND production cuts result in higher SSD pricing, fueling 25% revenue growth for memory makers

The NAND flash market saw 24.5% higher revenue in Q4 than it did in Q3, signaling that demand and prices are still rising.

TechRadar

Exclusive: World's largest SSD finally goes on sale — 61.44TB Solidigm SSD costs far less than I expected, with a per-terabyte price that's much cheaper than 8TB SSD

D5-P5336 is the first quad-level cell (QLC) SSD and is available in E1L and U.2 formats.

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Network-Attached Storage Market Update: ASUSTOR, Terramaster, and QNAP Introduce New NAS Units

The network-attached storage (NAS) market had a break-out decade in the 2010s, with a large number of vendors trying to get a slice of the pie. Brands such as EMC / Lenovo and Thecus have fallen by the wayside, and even established storage vendors like Seagate decided to drop out…

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Want to boost your Steam Deck storage capacity? Someone added a 61TB Solidigm SSD to Valve's popular gaming console — but it comes with one huge (obvious) disadvantage

An enterprise grade SSD on Steam Deck? Sounds great, but there’s a catch…

PC Gamer

This 61TB homebrew hack nukes the Steam Deck's storage 'problem' from orbit

Just enough space to install Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3...

AnandTech

Solidigm Lays Off Employees Due to Industry Downturn

The solid state storage industry has been in a well-documented slide for the better part of the last year now. With storage product demand from both the client and datacenter businesses down well off of its highs in a notoriously cyclical business, we've already seen the big three memory manufacturers…

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Solidigm Introduces D7-P5810: 144L SLC NVMe Drive for Write-Intensive Workloads

Solidigm's datacenter SSD offerings have been clearly delineated into different categories - the D3- SATA offerings for legacy servers, the D5- QLC-based offerings (with different models offering different tradeoffs between cost and endurance), and the D7- NVMe drives for the best performance and endurance ratings. The company has been using…

TechRadar

Could this 31TB SSD sell for less than $1000 in 2024? Solidigm’s new ruler drive may well be the one

Storage giant wants to dominate the data center market by kickstarting a price war with its rivals.

TechRadar

Bargain 61TB SSD is faster than expected in real-life tests, likely to cost under $3,500

Solidigm SSD going for the HDD jugular with a surprisingly nippy performance and relatively affordable price tag.

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