This loopy PCIe card can add 28 M.2 SSDs to your desktop PC
How a lot storage do you want in a single desktop PC? In case your reply is “over 200 terabytes,” you may be eager about Ultran’s newest PCIe storage card. This gadget can cram an unimaginable 28—sure, twenty-eight—M.2 drives into an area concerning the measurement of a bigger graphics card, sharing information over a posh Broadcom PCIe 5.0 swap.
The cardboard can deal with information transfers at just under 110 gigabytes per second, in accordance with the corporate’s promo supplies at Computex (in accordance with Tom’s {Hardware}). The 400-watt card is totally ravenous for energy by way of storage, although it additionally features a built-in cooling system with a radiator and fan. Its theoretical most capability, utilizing 8TB playing cards in all of its 80mm bays, is an unimaginable 224 terabytes.
That’s sufficient to retailer the newest Name of Obligation recreation about two thousand instances, if such a factor strikes your fancy… although anybody tempted to max out that capability might be coping with high-quality video information or LLM coaching information. I hope no matter you’re doing with all that information pays nicely, as a result of the Ultran 28-slot M.2 PCIe adapter is predicted to price $3,000 USD when it launches this summer time.
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