16TB M.2 SSD hits retail if you’re ready to drop $16,000 for the ultimate storage upgrade — price tag explodes 4X in just four months

Exascend PE4 PCIe 4.0 SSD.

While the market is full of the best SSDs, 16TB M.2 drives remain incredibly rare. That’s what makes FanlessTech’s discovery of the Exascend PE4 16TB at $15,935 is so interesting. It's the only 16TB M.2 SSD on the market and is twice the capacity of the biggest consumer M.2 drive, so it's an absolute outlier in both capacity and price.

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