16TB SSD has actually been available for a long time, but it is in SATA 2.5-inch form.Now, Exascend from Taiwan is the first to achieve 16TB capacity on M.2 2280 SSD!In fact, as early as the Taipei Computex in 2024, AGI and Dibo both showed prototypes of 16TB M.2 SSD, but they have not been released.
Zhiyu's enterprise-class SSD PE4 series originally had different capacity versions such as 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB, but now 16TB is added for the first time.
To be precise, their capacities are 960GB, 1.92TB, 3.84TB, 7.68TB, and 15.36TB respectively, because enterprise-level products require greater redundancy space.
In terms of specifications,Supports PCIe 4.0 x4, NVMe 1.4, with sequential read and write speeds up to 3270MB/s and 2980MB/s.
Even if you write continuously at full speed, it will take more than 5 hours to fill up.
The energy efficiency is very high, the power consumption is only 7.2W, the mean time between failures is 2 million hours, and the operating temperature range is 0-70°C.
At the same time, it also has an E1.S version, which can only be used on servers.
It is already on sale on Amazon with a price tag of US$15,935, which is approximately RMB 109,500, equivalent to more than 7,100 yuan per TB.
At the same time, 8TB is US$6,225 (￥43,000), 4TB is US$2,879 (￥20,000), 2TB is US$1,299 (￥8,930), and 1TB is US$679 (￥4,660).
