  We show that for black D$p$-branes having charge $Q$ and Hawking temperature
$T$, the product $QT^{7-p}$ is bounded from above for $p\leq 5$ and is
unbounded for $p=6$. While the maximum occurs at some finite value of a
parameter for $p \leq 4$, it occurs at infinity of the parameter for $p=5$. As
a consequence, for fixed charge, there are two black D$p$-branes (for $p\leq
4$) at any given temperature less than its maximum value, and when the
temperature is maximum there is one black D$p$-brane. For $p=5$, there is only
one black D5-brane at a given temperature less than its maximum value, whereas,
for $p=6$, since there is no bound for the temperature, there is always a black
D6-brane solution at a given temperature. Of the two black D$p$-branes (for
$p\leq 4$), one is large which is shown to be thermodynamically unstable and
the other is small which is stable. But for $p=5,6$, the black D$p$-branes are
always thermodynamically unstable. The stable, small black D$p$-brane, however,
under certain conditions, can become unstable quantum mechanically and decay
either to a BPS D$p$-brane or to a Kaluza-Klein "bubble of nothing" through
closed string tachyon condensation. The small D5, D6 branes, although
classically unstable, have the same fate under similar conditions.
