Solidigm 1.6TB SSD PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe U.2

Enterprise hardware at enterprise prices, but the performance doesn't justify the premium for anyone outside a server room. Buy a consumer NVMe drive and spend the savings on literally anything else.

The speed numbers land at the 68th percentile, which sounds okay until you realize this drive is built for sustained enterprise workloads, not bursty consumer tasks. Sequential throughput is solid, but random performance sits at the 62nd percentile, which is just average for a drive at this price point. What surprised us is how unremarkable the raw numbers are for something positioned as a datacenter workhorse. The endurance story is better, but at the 57th percentile, even that doesn't blow us away.

Stack this against the Samsung 9100 PRO or the WD_BLACK SN850X and the D7-P5620 looks lost. The Samsung and WD drives are consumer-focused, cheaper, and faster in burst workloads. The Kingston FURY Renegade and Crucial T500 both offer better gaming performance at a fraction of the price. The Micron T710 is the closest competitor in spirit, another enterprise-leaning drive, but even that gives you more capacity for the money. The D7-P5620 only makes sense if you specifically need U.2 hot-swap in a server chassis.

This is where the D7-P5620 falls off a cliff. At roughly $1,326 to $1,357 USD, you're paying enterprise tax for a drive that delivers mid-pack consumer performance in most metrics. The affordability percentile is 4th, which means 96% of drives in our database give you more storage or speed per dollar. For this money, you could buy multiple high-end consumer NVMe drives with more capacity and better gaming performance.

The Solidigm D7-P5620 is an enterprise U.2 drive that somehow ended up on a consumer retail shelf, and the pricing shows it. This is a 1.6TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD built for servers and datacenters, not your gaming rig. The one thing to know? Unless you have a specific enterprise workload in mind, you're paying a massive premium for hardware your desktop probably can't even plug in without an adapter.

If you're looking for a fast gaming or workstation drive, this isn't it. Go grab a Samsung 9100 PRO or WD_BLACK SN850X instead. You'll get better performance, more capacity, and you won't need a soldering iron and a prayer to install it.

Skip this unless you're running a datacenter. The Solidigm D7-P5620 is a fine enterprise drive in a consumer market that has no use for it. For gamers and workstation users, there are faster, cheaper, and easier-to-install options everywhere you look. The only reason to buy this is if your server literally requires U.2 and you've already priced out alternatives.