The world’s first 16TB M.2 SSD has appeared on Amazon, and its price is eye-watering

16TB M.2 SSDs are now available to purchase, and their pricing is NUTS

If you want to max out your M.2 slots and you have an unlimited budget, you can now buy a 16TB M.2 NVMe SSD for your PC. Fanless Tech has spotted a 16TB PE4 M.2 SSD from Exascend, a drive that costs an insane $15,935 on Amazon in the US.

For that insane cost, users get 16TB of PCIe 4.0 storage and sequential read/write speeds of up to 3,270 MB/s and 2,980 MB/s, respectively. That’s slow for a PCIe 4.0 SSD. What’s even worse is that this SSD costs almost $996 per Terabyte. That’s exceptionally bad value, even within today’s PC market. That said, this SSD is intended for enterprise products that will be used almost continuously. Regardless, it’s hard to see any consumers wanting this SSD, given its low performance ratings and insanely high price.

– Exascend Enterprise-Grade PE4 PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 SSD – Amazon US – $15,935

For the most part, modern consumer-grade M.2 SSDs max out at 8TB of storage. While 16TB PCIe 5.0 SSDs would be useful to some consumers, 1TB and 2TB SSDs remain the most popular sizes within the consumer market. With NAND pricing increasing, this is unlikely to change anytime soon.

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