Exascend's 16TB SSD is now on sale - but it'll set you back a mind-boggling $16,000

Want a 16TB SSD? If you do, then you'll be paying a lot of money for it, as while this capacity drive is now on sale in the US, the price tag runs to almost $16,000.

FanlessTech flagged up on X (via VideoCardz) that the Exascend Enterprise-Grade PE4 M.2 SSD is now available to buy at Amazon for the not inconsiderable sum of $15,935 at the time of writing. (Note that the image is wrong - the drive being sold is actually an M.2 model).

As the name makes clear, this is an enterprise drive and one that isn't being sold on the merits of its speed, but rather that 16TB capacity.

You'll get read speeds of up to 3,270MB/s and write speeds of up to 2980MB/s, but more importantly a 2,000,000-hour MTBF (mean time between failures) and efficient operation (power consumption is under 7.2W).

As noted, this is designed for operation in servers or workstations, and it isn't a consumer drive. If you need a lot of storage space in your workstation laptop, this is obviously going to be a good choice - if you can afford it.

The huge price tag is to be expected, though, especially given that the price of higher-end SSDs has been on a steep upward trajectory this year. (No, it's not as bad as that seen with RAM, but pricier SSDs have definitely been hit the hardest aside from system memory).

However, given the kind of PC you can buy for north of 15 grand, it's still quite mind-boggling to think that all you're getting is a solid-state drive for this outlay.