What is the latest status on this product? I'm sure I'm not the only one that has a need for this large of an SSD (in my case, I could use either 2.5" or m.2 NVMe although 2.5" would be preferable).
@JEANNIE CREWSON It's effectively on hold for the forseeable future due to market conditions and enterprise requirements. We have more 8TB NVMe drives plotted out but the flash isn't there yet for 16TB but we are shooting for it.
I had built two systems in anticipation that some good 16 TB SATA SSDs (with 10^17+ UBER and OPAL SED support) would be available so I could pop 14 of them into my enclosure. Then Solidigm announced their 61.44 TB as a 15 mm thick U.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, and now it’s available for purchase for a mere $3,700, instantly making 16 TB in a 7 mm thick SATA SSD no longer competitive in terms of density. 16 TB SATA SSDs had also already been uncompetitive in terms of $/TB ever since it came out. Currently, competing 16 TB SATA SSDs sell for upwards of $2,400, while a 32 TB-class PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD could be gotten for $1,800. I can see why it does not make sense to release such a product. If it’s this pricey to put a product like this together just to for a small profit margin, then it has an incredibly small market. The cost needs to go much lower, and the density needs to catch up to 32 TB/7 mm.
@Sabrent Any idea when we might finally see any of this. We've been promised the SATA 16TB twice only to have it turn to vaporware. I would love to see an M.2 16TB NVMe drive from an established company finally come out.
@JEANNIE CREWSON We ended up having our enterprise drive hit over 30TB in U.2 and plan a regular M.2 Rocket at 16TB eventually. SATA seems less likely.
With the current RAM shortage, thanks to the rapid proliferation of AI data centers (yet another reason for me to hate AI) causing much silicon product manufacturing be diverted to RAM going into those data centers, is it reasonable to expect development of a 16TB M.2 NVMe SSD to be put on hold or abandoned?
Prices on current 8TB SSDs has been skyrocketing almost as fast as RAM prices. Micron is killing their Crucial brand (bless their hearts🙄) and Samsung has discontinuing all 2.5" SATA SSDs (I've already hate Samsung for all their current products, not just SSDs, and lousy customer service; thank goodness I had already stocked on the 8TB ones after they killed that line to ensure I have enough for future backup needs).
In enterprise, I know of one 16-TB-class M.2 SSD that’s in the common 80-mm length, and there’s those 128-TB-class U.2 SSDs which are only double the thickness of a consumer SATA SSD. Between that M.2 SSD and the U.2 SSD, napkin math says a 64-TB-class SATA SSD should be possible by now. But nothing interesting is happening in the SATA SSD space.
I got rid of my ICY DOCK SATA removable drive enclosures to make room for more PCIe-based storage (U.2/E1.S).
