Exascend PE4 16 TB SSD appears on Amazon for $15,935 - and it is far from fast

It is far from fast, though

Amazon has listed the first Exascend PE4 solid-state drive with a 16 TB capacity, priced at $15,935. That works out at almost $1,000 per terabyte.

In the product listing, the drive is described as an M.2 NVMe SSD using a PCIe 4.0 x4 interface. The stated speeds are up to 3,270 MB/s for reads and up to 2,980 MB/s for writes. Even so, the standout aspect is not performance but the enormous capacity and the exceptionally high asking price.

Exascend, however, presents the PE4 range not as a consumer product but as an enterprise SSD aimed at server workloads, compact data centres, NAS systems, workstations, and caching. The official product page says the M.2 2280 version reaches 15.36 TB, whereas Amazon lists the drive as a 16 TB model.