10/16/2026
AI training and inference require massive amounts of data. The traditional response is to throw more storage hardware at the problem. Need another 10 PB to train your latest model? Even with hard drives now reaching 40 TB, that means 250 more of them, plus the racks, the power, and the cooling they require.
The Solidigm™ D5-P5336 holds 122.88 TB of high-density QLC storage in a single standard form factor. For the same 10 PB? You're looking at 82 drives vs. 250.
The drive count is the easy part. In a 100MW AI data center model, moving to an all-QLC tier on these drives collapsed 9 storage racks into 1 and cut storage power by roughly 80%, freeing enough of the power budget for roughly 25% more compute.
Power you recover from storage does not sit idle. It goes to GPUs.
Scale smarter with Solidigm SSDs. See for yourself:
Learn how Solidigm QLC SSDs stack up against TLC SSDs and hybrid storage solutions in AI data center power consumption in this Signal65 Lab white paper.