Kingston has unveiled a 30.72TB solid-state drive, but as you can probably guess, it's not for us puny gamers and our storage-starved rigs. Unlike the best SSDs for gaming, the Kingston DC3000ME PCIe 5.0 NVMe U.2 SSD is instead a high-speed PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD that utilizes 3D eTLC NAND and is designed for a "wide range of server applications such as AI, HPC, OLTP, databases, cloud infrastructure and edge computing," aka, data centers.
The enterprise-level SSD on its own isn't technically new. But its brow-raising 30.72TB capacity, and its boasted sequential read speeds of up to 14GB/s, is a brand new addition to the DC3000ME line-up. Its speeds are so high that we're not even dealing with the typical MB/s (Megabits per second) that I'm used to when I review the latest SSDs, but it makes sense for something that's meant to power up a data center as opposed to letting you play Cyberpunk 2077 uninterrupted. Will it mean older gaming SSDs will finally be free from the data center hoard for the rest of us? I wouldn't keep my fingers crossed.
