Phison steals Micron’s PCIe 5 SSD crown after just one day with a 122TB drive [Video]

In brief: When Micron unveiled its new 60TB PCIe Gen 5 data center SSD on Wednesday, the company boasted that it was pushing the technological envelope. However, Phison just leapfrogged it with a model that offers double the capacity and superior write speeds. Solidigm also just announced an SSD with similar storage space, but it only supports PCIe 4.0.

Solidigm and Phison almost simultaneously revealed upcoming data center PCIe SSDs with capacities exceeding 120TB on Thursday. The announcements come mere hours after Micron’s 60TB PCIe Gen 5 SSD established a new precedent.

Micron claims that its 6550 ION is the world’s first 60TB PCIe 5.0 SSD and thus the fastest drive with that capacity, with a sequential read speed of 12GB/s at 1.6 million IOPs. However, Phison’s Pascari D205Vholds 122.88TB – its real capacity despite being labeled as …