{"id":1033855,"date":"2026-01-15T15:59:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mQwBDeEFtm59UN6sJbwRkE"},"modified":"2026-01-15T15:59:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T15:59:21","slug":"worlds-biggest-pcie-ssd-immediately-squashed-by-even-bigger-and-faster-pcie-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/worlds-biggest-pcie-ssd-immediately-squashed-by-even-bigger-and-faster-pcie-ssd\/","title":{"rendered":"World’s biggest PCIe SSD immediately squashed by even bigger and faster PCIe SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It’s a tale as old as time: something big is superseded by something bigger. You take your Blue Eyes White Dragon to the school disco and Billy Big Boots over there whaps out his five-piece Exodia. Such tales are not alien to the hardware world, either, as demonstrated by a recent bout of extraordinarily sized SSDs.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I reported that Micron introduced the first PCIe 5 60 TB SSD<\/a>, which it called “the world\u2019s fastest 60TB data center SSD”. Today, however, ex-Intel SSD arm Solidgm introduced what was, just hours ago, the world’s highest capacity (122 TB) PCIe SSD<\/a>. Then, almost immediately after, Phison introduced an even faster 128 TB PCIe SSD<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You’ll notice that the image for the Phison drive says 122.88 TB, though, which is the amount of actual capacity the drive has, versus its 128 TB of phyiscal NAND memory. Which does make me wonder whether the Solidigm drive might be the same size as the Phison after all and the companies are just referring to different things.<\/p>\n

But that’d be like calling a 2 TB drive a 1.86 TB drive just because only 1.86 TB is usable. In which case Solidigm would have simply missed the buck in labelling it 122 TB. I can’t assume they made such a mistake, so I’ll assume the Phison is actually higher capacity. And it’s much faster, anyway.<\/p>\n

Yesterday I did some quick math to see just how many games Micron’s 60 TB badboy could house, so why not, let’s do the same again for the new king of the hill, the Phison Pascari D205V<\/a><\/a>. 122.88 TB of storage means 768 Stalker 2 installs, based on the current 160 GB system requirements, or 71,028 Crab Champions<\/a> installs, based on my installed game files. Looking down the middle of the road, now, it could house about 4,388 Valorant installs at roughly 28 GB per install.<\/p>\n

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